Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perturbed by the quality of entrants in Canada's greatest racing classic, 18,000 Toronto socialites and plain people last week swarmed into Woodbine Park. In honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal...
...drawings touches great names an types in this field. Typical of the Florentines are the figures by Fillipino Lippi and Andrea del Sarto; of the Venetians, a boarded head by Carpaccio. Among the Germans are two Durers, and a follower of Holbein. The French are represented in their classic vein by the revered Claude and Poussin, in their elegance by Watteau and Fragonard...
Arguments. The Government's position that the Constitution's commerce clause empowered Congress to regulate intrastate business when it "affected" interstate affairs had by now become classic. But this time the classic argument was being put by the New Deal's high legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible...
...even editorial columns, with their radical neighbors. Mother Advocate whooping it up with the boys, sporting mud on her shoes, is far from being in an unbecoming role. Into the oars of Advocate editors, filled this morning with congratulations, it would not be out of place to whisper the classic phrase: "Dulce Est Puriculam...
...mask of comedy in Ruggles of Red Gap, hardens into unforgettable lines of fixed, neurotic malice in Les Miserables. More than any other single ingredient, it helps to make the picture, like David Copperfield, a superb example of what the current cinema can accomplish with a 19th Century classic...