Word: grail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bones broken, I considered the afternoon's work sufficient. Heaving a sigh for the great open streets of Louisville where Fords are Fords, not battering rams, and freshmen are not prospective hospital patients, I began the annual freshman quest--compared to which Sir Lancelot's search for the Holy Grail was without hardships--for enough sheets, blankets, dowels, soap, and divers other necessities of life which I had heretofore imagined inseparable from every bedroom and bathroom to make life livable until the long-promised and long-awaited trunk appeared on the scene...
...body seated in the swivel chair. And what was the witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps...
...literature is probably responsible for the flood of mediocre work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert some of the celestial fire which animates their search for the modern holy grail toward reducing the quantity and raising the quality or present-day reading matter they could render this country and the rest of the world a real and immediate service...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
Among the most interesting is a book of "Lyrical Poems", which is the first volume that has Tennyson's name on the title page. There is in addition a presentation copy of "The Princess" and one of "The Holy Grail and Other Poems", containing a page in the author's own hand-writing. A privately printed copy of "Becket" as Sir Henry Irving adapted it for acting is also on exhibition...