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...Greece and Rome, and also in the history of eight European countries, England, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Russia. The research was based upon a study of all historical time during which a reliable record of these countries exists. The study was made, therefore, in Grecian history from the 6th century B.C. until the end of Greek independence, and in Roman history from the 3rd century until the end of the Western Roman empire. In European countries, the study was made since the 11th century, taking every war irrespective of how large or small it may have...
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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