Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epic tale of a lonely girl working in dusty grainfields is the story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...
...leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
Former upheavals that have served to disturb the equanimity of Harvard's fertile backyard soil have at least been compensated for in part by such epic discoveries as that of the Harvard plates, dear to the heart of old graduates and more recent wives. But unless some former treasures of the Med. Fac. or the buried miscellanies and Imperial testimonies of similar secret societies be the result of the present activity, we can look for ward to little but the plebian and depressingly progressive activity of white gloved gesticulating yard oops and the existence of red and green lights...
...lower North America. In Mexico the Aztecs, in Yucatan the Mayans developed civilizations which declined and fell so long ago that little is known of them today. Their traditions, lingering in the stones and exhumed jewelry of their cities, are of an antiquity admirably suited to folklore and epic poetry. Hence Payambé, "The First One," a new Mexican opera...
Coach Brown's greatest coaching problem is still the selection and development of a stroke man with the smoothness and stamina to guide the Crimson shell over the four mile course at New London in the annual Harvard-Yale epic...