Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere façade the reader can sense, and sometimes see, his peculiarly Irish irreverence...
...Indianapolis classic of U. S. auto racing was eight months away last week. But on a ramshackle half-mile dirt track on the outskirts of Detroit 33 chugging, sputtering little cars lined up before 10,000 spectators to run what the track's owner Don Zeiter, at least, regarded as Indianapolis in miniature. Its qualifying races had already been run off exactly like those at Indianapolis. Chief differences were the length of the race (150 miles instead of 500), the size of the track (½ mile instead of 2½), the size of the prizes ($5,000 instead...
...Quezon presidency is in effect dictatorship. To forestall any chance that the Popular Front might develop a dangerous opposition among Philippine workers, Manuel Quezon proposed to up wages 62? a day in Manila, 25? in the provinces. Political observers familiar with Filipino political tactics construed this as a classic example of Quezon's political guile. During his trip to the U. S. Manuel Quezon argued in Washington and broadcast to his constituents speeches in favor of advancing the date of Philippine national independence to 1938 or 1939. To distribute to masses of voters the proceeds...
...Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits and tendencies can be inherited...