Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once the laureates of a period or a nation, whose fame was certain. Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered him in his own lifetime. Today even their names are forgotten. Who was the author of "Mucedorus"? In Elizabeth's reign that invertebrate play was the delight of the groundlings who clamored also for "Faustus" and the tragedy of Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar...
Hardy Mrs. Mollison. Current idols of British hero-worshippers are the flying bride-&-groom, James Allan Mollison and Amy Johnson Mollison. Both have made distinguished record flights, notably his London-Cape Town and his recent solo westward across the Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three...
...different murder story for their front pages. The.victim was a girl. Her remains had lain undiscovered in Minnesota, not just a few hours, but for many years. The number of years was what made the story, as a murder story, a newspaper hoax and a scientist's delight. Professor Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota gave the story its first publication. Speaking before the National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid more than 10,000 years older than...
...undergraduates into an espousal of intellectual cultivation. Hard mental labor is now fashionable; in Harvard College, and better than fashionable; it is at last socially respectable and better than that, it is rejoiced in and enjoyed for its own sake by young men who discover to their amazement and delight that they have brains and that it is exhilarating to be able to use them...
...generations by one who has been very much a member of it. Autobiographical in form, it deals more with other people than the author's own life. And it is genial and pleasing and filled with the warmth of personalities, great and small. Throughout the author is delightful and humorous. He tells anecdotes and reprints satirical poems of his own and other writers from Punch; and yet he is able to interlard a great deal of sound criticism. With equal case he returns to his childhood and recaptures a naive delight in the verses of the Tailor sisters, two Victorian...