Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Lawn Tennis Federation, admitted to eligibility for Davis Cup competition by a two-thirds vote of her onetime enemies, announced last week that she would enter a team in this year's jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...
Bramante is said to have shared with Brunelleschi the glory of bringing back to architecture the half-forgotten splendors of classic antiquity...
...years red-blooded U. S. college athletes have thrilled to the classic vaunt: "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." All that was golden about the glorious '90s is bound up in those few quiet words. According to legend, they were uttered after he had broken his leg in the Princeton game by Philip M. Brett, Rutgers football captain in 1891, now a Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said...
Regretting the passing of the time when "the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows", and when "offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck leak", the writer goes on to decry the present situation...
...program of tonight's concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Serge Koussevitsky will lead in Sanders Theatre this evening is as follows: Prokofleff Classic Symphony Op. 25 Solo Concerto for violincello and orchestra Schumann Symphony in B-flat major...