Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hampden, dean of actor managers since the death of Henry Miller, will continue at his own theatre in classic repertory, including Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. He also promises a modern play...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Thrice the Archbishop stopped to knock at the church door. The third time it opened and the procession disappeared within. There are Catholic mysteries not open to the public. Promptly at ten o'clock began another procession from the residence of Archbishop Glennon to the Cathedral for the classic ritual of Pontifical High Mass. Robed in their most gorgeous vestments, the assemblage of churchmen provoked manifestations of devout reverence. In front glinted the cross with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four...
...annual Harvard-Yale crew race at New London is generally spoken of as a "classic," a word which journalists apply to any event which re-occurs for three or more years without noticeable alteration...
...between races, came sounds of mirth mingled with the tinkling of ice; once more gentlemen slept three in a bed at the Griswold Hotel; once more ladies waved little blue or crimson flags and asked, "Who won?" They should have known that if this race is to remain a classic, the classic result must not be changed. Yale...