Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall hung a picture of Stalin. With passionate feeling and extravagant gesture a schoolboy declaimed an epic poem in praise of Tovarish Stalin. This happened in Washington...
Last week, 100 members of Oxford's Labor Club decided to reenact the epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said...
Marie Cord revealed two of her heart's desires--and a little bit more--last night while cavorting around The Gay Nineties in a moving little epic titled "Mrs. Bottomly's Bustle...
Farrebique. A year on a French farm becomes fine epic and lyric film poetry (TIME, March...
...rare friendly moments, his father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...