Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that...
Author Cecil considers Hardy "the last English writer to be built on the grand Shakespearean scale." Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...
Died. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, 75, versatile grand old man of football, inventor of many a dazzling play, developer of the fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...that met with their longtime doctor's deep disapproval. They trooped into Bermont's hardware & grocery, and Alderson's clothing store and dropped dollar bills and 50? pieces into a box to give him a trip around the world and to sign a citation: "To a grand old man, with the best wishes of a grateful community...
...result ranges from ho-hum when Royalty seeks laughs by bellowing "Shut up," to ha-ha when Hope tries on the mannerisms of a grand seigneur. Hope is a barber forced, for reasons too tortuous to relate, to impersonate the first swordsman and ladykiller of France. He is also supposed to marry the Spanish Infanta (Marjorie Reynolds), though he loves a scullery maid (Joan Caulfield...