Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it has been impossible to secure either Owen or Dooley as formal speakers for Wednesday's epic debate, both are expected to be in the audience and may rise to take part in the general debate that will follow the oratorical efforts of the listed speakers...
...POWER AND THE GLORY-Sir Gilbert Parker-Harpers ($2.00). This broad canvas is open to the criticism, so frequently heard these days, that it was painted to hang in the cinema boxoffice. But what of that. The epic exploits of its tall and handsome hero are swept in with splendid vigor. Its backgrounds of political intrigue at the court of Louis XIV, of rushing rivers and Indian-filled forests in Canada and Mid-America, are lavish and alive. The hero, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
Thus a career as remarkable as that of any man who has ever served in Congress, a career covering 90 years, two months and two days, eventful from its inception to its end. The mere recital of its milestones is epic...
...Pony Express. Paramount has been advertising for some time this picture as a "western epic" and the sequel to The Covered Wagon. James Cruze who directed that unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest...