Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposite this entrance, ranged like a football crowd on the tiers of a stadium, beneath a classic portico and around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...
...slugfest with the University batters poling 17 hits for 15 runs while Yale was able to amass only five runs off the offerings of Booth and Cutts. Yale turned the tables two days later on the waters of the Thames, entering a crew in the time honored four mile classic, which was strong enough to surpass the best efforts of Harvard's oarsmen by a good two lengths...
...because at times he rises to a certain height. His descriptions of the Maine countryside are better than the usual pretty twitterings spent on that subject, and, better still, he has breathed the breath of life into his rustic heroine, and really evolved a figure with the classic serenity of a modern Ceres...
...these essays, "Fishing with a Worm," long an angler's classic, remains the best. Perhaps it is inevitable that a defense of the under-dog, or of the worm, should have the greatest appeal, for as he says...
...undertook the responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...