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Word: choragus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert de Lany plays the role of the Choragus, while Miss Margaret White will play the part of Alcestis maid servant. Robert Nichols is the father, Pheres, and manservant Walter B. Perkins '41 will admonish Hercules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POET'S THEATRE FILLS 'ALCESTIS' FINAL CAST | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jobation | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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