Word: flaccus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aldrich, R. J. Roches, H. H. Caffee, J. J. Carney, J. L. Clark, P. S. Dalton, F. I. Davison, H. D. Everett, P. Finlay, C. L. Flaccus, T. O. Frazier, R. F. Fulton, F. M. Goodwin, J. P. Gray, L. M. Harding, A. L. Hartridge, R. A. Hodges, A. W. Huguley, H. M. Jeone, O. E. Langley, E. H. McGrath, D. G. McLeod, E. L. Millard, V. Munroe, H. B. Nichols, W. K. Page, R. L. Rideont, G. S. Robinson, W. C. Rowe, M. H. Rubin, R. E. Seoger, C. A. Snelling, R. W. Sponaugle, P. M. Sweezy, Taylor...
That inimitable critic of schnitzels and life, George Jean Nathan, occasionally enters the territory where angels fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...
...Charles Edward Stowe, of Santa Barbara, who calls himself twin brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin because his mother, Harriet Beecher Stowe, produced him and the book at approximately the same time, sent to Coolidge Campaign Headquarters a quotation from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, famed Roman poet, which he applied to the President...
Professor Moore pointed out to his audience the danger of misinterpreting some of the finest of Horace's theories. "For instance," he said, "almost every student I have ever taught has told me that Quintus Horatius Flaccus originated the philosophy of 'Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye die!'" The Professor explained that while Horace did actually "Eat, drink, and make merry," he did it with moderation, and not at all in the spirit of the familiar "quotation...