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Primarily a lyrical balladeer, Benet is not content to stick to one verse form, and occasionally makes some happy hits in other directions, as in this epitaph on a Greek Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balladeer | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...help thinking how touched Mark Twain would be with the inscription on the little pomeranian's final resting place! (TIME, Sept. 29, Oct. 13). Over Mrs. Clemens' grave, too, stands a stone engraved with the epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...entire substitute for production in difficult times like the present. It is high time in any case that the work ers learned to live by faith, not work. As for those weaklings who may fall by the wayside and starve to death, let the country bury them under the epitaph: Better Dead than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayer in Industry | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Clemenceau, a few short weeks before Death came to him (TIME, Dec. 2), wrote the Earl's most adequate epitaph, recalled that at the Peace Conference "Mr. Arthur Balfour [was] the most cultured, the most gracious, the most courteous of adamantine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bloody Balfour and Miss Nancy | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister, who is ill, and the shock hastens Chrysis' death. Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies Chrysis, daughter of Arches of Andros: the ewe that has strayed from the flock lives many years in one day and dies at a great age when the sun sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wilder-ness | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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