Word: grecian
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...Italo-Grecian crisis a year ago, he fought for peace, for mediation, for a fair settlement with an honesty and a Tightness which could not be denied...
...Edsall, MacLeish, Simpson, Buhner, McCormick are coming home. The Navy Department announced it. For two long years they have been wanderers overseas. Destroyer Division 39 sailed into strange ports- Odessa, Theodosia, Novorossiisk, Samsun and Smyrna-helping the American Relief in Russia, carrying refugees from the smoking ruins of Turco-Grecian war. Their keels have not left the water, their crews have not left their posts. But like Odysseus, at last they shall come home...
...loan was offered by Greece as a mark of esteem for American democracy, but the underlying idea was said to be that "millions of Americans, particularly the younger student generation, may find inspiration for art study in viewing this matchless example of Grecian sculpture, of which reproductions exist in all countries...
...chorus, however, we have developed rythmical dance movements, which I believe approximate very closely those used by the original Greek choruses. It took a long time to evolve these dance movements. My son had to spend several weeks in the British Museum studying the figures on the Grecian vases, before at last he was able to obtain a practical conception of the original dances...
...upon that of Miss Mary Pickford reposed the two most perfect nasal appendages in the world. 'Miss Pickford's,' said the doctor, 'is approached only by that of Diana, Roman goddess of the chase.' He stated that mine was 'of the perfect Grecian type...