Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Orphan into General. To trace the life circle which began and ended at Huatabampo would strain an epic pair of compasses...
...vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
Only one U. S. newspaper carried the story last week. This so incensed the editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate* that he published an editorial flaying the U. S. press for not recognizing the epic achievement of a Chinese student of a Methodist institution of learning. Said the editorial: "We are glad a Chinese girl won the honor. Had some society woman, sponsored by some rich party, done this deed, volumes of front pages would have come...
Once married and supplied with funds, Adventurer Zubkov neglected his Princess and began in Berlin a boozily epic career. He playfully but painfully tweaked the noses of tardy waiters. He smashed and exploded bottles of champagne just for the fun of dousing perfect strangers with effervescent golden rain. . . . And very often Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov roistered with from six to ten ladies of the evening until high noon...
...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...