Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hereafter the name of Lansdowne will be the rythm for a proud measure in the epic of the skies...
That was the latest scene in an epic of journalism in New Mexico. In 1920 Magee, a lawyer from Tulsa went to Albuquerque for his wife's health, and decided to buy a newspaper. So he picked the Morning Journal which was partly owned by Albert Bacon Fall, then Senator from New Mexico. Mr. Fall looked up Magee's record in Tulsa and found that he was "regular" and financially reliable. So Magee bought, Fall telling him that he was glad to get the money since he was about broke. Soon Magee began to expose corruption...
...epic poets, through some chance, in all their accounts of the battles of champions, have neglected to supply the world with an adequate story of a battle between a crusader and an efficiency expert. Yet that, too, has striking dramatic possibilities; and observers were, last week, inclined to the view that the country is about to be treated to an example of such a conflict-a battle between a man with a cause and a man with simply an aim; between an indignant voice and well-directed force; between Roy Asa Haynes and Lincoln C. Andrews...
...erstwhile prospector, now in purple and fine sable, lounges on the first cabin, his heart aswoon for a vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema is a medium of high art only because it can be used...
...variability of New England weather is recorded by Mark Twain in the minutiae of its changes, but some new epic singer must be found to record the heroic changes of yesterday. No wonder the New England temperament is so firm and unyielding; it has been molded by disgust for the climate...