Word: epochal
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...funny bone and a what may be modestly referred to as a certain degree of journalistic acumen do combine to make what would otherwise be merely another baseball game something over which to wax ecstatic, and occasion for dancing in the streets, in short, an Epocin. And when the Epoch is one of an annual series, stretching back into infinity--or thereabouts--the result approaches that which young girls loosely term an experience...
...possible approaches to the most recent work of Professor Beard in American history. Either leaves one with the certainty that he has written, with the aid of his wife, a work of the greatest importance. From one point of view, "The Rise of American Civilization" marks an epoch in the writing of history by American scholars. From a broader approach, he has written an epic which should itself figure in American history...
...Even if the Americans have a lot of money, we French," he interposed a sweeping gesture at his bookcase, "we have a lot of paper dollars. What a richness, what a flowering of genius is our epoch, and how poor is America in this respect when compared with us. She counts hardly ten talented writers, Dreiser, Stinclair Lewis, Sherwood. Anderson, Cabell, and several others, Consider out own authors: Maurras, Marsau, Morand, Maurois, Mauriase, Miomandre, Montherland, Magre, Mille, Martin du Gard... There are ten already, and I have only listed those whose names begin with M. We can be proud...
...will be the presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...
...McGovern, distinguished British orientalist and explorer will lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "To Lhasa in Disguise", and will be illustrated with pictures taken with great difficulty by the explorer on his epoch-making expedition to Tibet's capitol...