Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community playhouse. But he was 48 and Greece had called him since he was 16. They went. He built huts for them on Parnassos, shared his "drunkenly Greek" mind with the shepherds, revived Socratic dialogs beside the Acropolis, relived his whole life, by memory and poetry, garbed as a Delphic shepherd. He died there (1924) of glanders contracted by nursing a stray puppy...
...toward Nicaragua. Even a reader of the tabloids could probably explain the grounds of their contention. Surely one gets no evidence of a consistent policy from the utterances of the State Department nor the official spokesman," nor even from the Republican journals of opinion which seek to interpret these Delphic utterances to a misled public...
...winds playing with the leaves of the Delphic oracle could have wrought no more havoc than students attempting to discover preceding examination papers from the morass at Widener. One presumes that in their pristine state the files were blessed with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...
...parties shall be submitted to arbitration in such form as the Advisory Committee shall determine. Harvard Clubs That Are Members to Agreement A. D. Club Owl Club Alpha Tau Sigma Club Phi Kappa Epsilon Club Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity Phoenix Club Argo Club Pi Eta Society Delphic Club Porcellian Club Digamma Club S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club S. K. Club Falcon Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Stylus Club Iroquois Club Styx Club K. G. X. Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Trident Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
...which one can only answer as would the Delphic Divine from over the East River--"My dear young lady, your situation is indeed a difficult one. But there are two sides to every story and you have only shown me one--the outside. Yet I sincerely believe that if you can keep your husband from dipping his bread in his breakfast coffee you will have done all that any wife could do--except to continue, as Glenn Hunter has said, 'his best friend and most severe critic'--for he will need both...