Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also...
Manhattan to talk at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he gave a powerful sermon about the facts of contemporary life. He told off the experts of Information Please for not knowing who does what on the Defense Commission; praised the new kind of "epic" leadership British labor has given democracy; called for the creation of a council to plan post-war prosperity...
...were huddled over the piano polishing up the newest song in the show: "There's Something Rotten in Groton." This epic ditty is delivered by Maxie Baer and Sid Silvers, who gain admission to college using forged diplomas from Dr. Peadbody's institution...
Last week, Hollywood brayed happily as it contemplated its first assignment in the colossal epic of national defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...
While R. N. hunted, survivors of the disaster reached port with considerable deflation for the German Admiralty's claim of "86,000 tons completely destroyed," and another epic of blazing courage in British seamen. Survivors told...