Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Katharine Cornell is of more than average height. Her broad, mobile face is ruled off at the bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does...
Confronted with a less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...Johannes Walther, professor of Geology & Paleontology of Halle University, Saxony, tells of having seen a visible phenomenon off the coast of Greece that might well have seemed a sea-rising Aphrodite to an unscientific eye. Writing lately in the scientific magazine Forschungen und Fortschritte, he described a day in Grecian waters when a snowstorm was gathering and the waves were high. As cold air struck the warm water, columns of white vapor rose from the sea. They were held suspended for a moment, then whirled, dissolving away. Professor Walther thought they resembled "feminine figures dancing in filmy draperies...
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...tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization's bold Grecian red cross and signature. The seal sales, however, hindered Red Cross collec tions for its own purposes. So the 1919 seal also carried the double-barred Lor raine cross, symbol of the National Tuberculosis Association. Since 1920 the seals have made no reference to the Red Cross. That...