Word: gorgon
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...bull-necked gnome who computes all problems on a slide rule; 2) Launcelot McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who speaks thick Brooklynese; 3) Gus the Ghost, an ectoplasmic intellectual who ghostwrites O'Malley's autobiography when O'Malley runs for Congress. There is also a talking dog, Gorgon ("Didn't know I could do it. ... Never tried it before, I guess...
...bloody, innocent little story with an innocent little point. By the time Thomas Mann got through with it, it was about as innocent as a Gorgon's smile...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
Italy. When Perseus, son of Danae and great Zeus, was grown to manhood, the lustful king of Seriphus, who coveted his mother and would be rid of the son, sent him off to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa whose glance turned men to stone. With winged sandals given by the Nymphs, the helmet of Hades which made him invisible, and the sword of Hermes, Perseus watched Medusa's reflection in Athena's shield, cut off the head, returned to Seriphus to rescue his mother by exposing the petrifying head to the eyes of the king...
...college are inscrutable orders taken more seriously, nor have they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...