Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epic sea rescue in which 1420 persons were taken off a blazing British troopship near Algiers Sunday was a triumph of the English national character, Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, said last night...
Fats Waller First Editions (Joe Sullivan, piano; Epic LP). Eight unpublished Waller compositions, from blue moods to impudent bounces, played by one of Chicago's alltime greats, Joe Sullivan. No Waller fan will complain if most of the longs sound like his familiar Honeysuckle Rose or Ain't Misbehavin...
Margaret began her personnel career in a rather ironic way, by playing the part of a slave girl in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments. She was going to Hollywood High School at the time. Says she: "Everybody was a part of the movie colony in those days. I heard that the studio was paying $5 a day for extras, so I applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret...
...Nagas Were Violent." For ten weeks every twelve years, Hindu millions bathe where the sacred rivers meet. The scriptures tell how divine nectar, which is said to confer immortality and everlasting bliss, was once spilled into the rivers during an epic fight between the demons and the gods. There, too, Brahma, Lord of Creation, gathered strength for his mighty task. And when the sun, Jupiter and the moon enter a certain astrological relationship-this occurs during a few hours on one day once in 144 years-it is the most auspicious time for bathing...
...First World War Britain had smartened up considerably. Now it was Germany's turn to produce the military dunces. How low the Prussian intelligence could sink was clearly demonstrated in the Gary Cooper epic Sergeant York. First, the gangling backwoods bumpkin captured a troop of Germans, mostly by making turkey-calling noises, then picking off the heads that popped up to investigate the ruckus...