Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes...
It is regrettable that Mr. Biddle in his otherwise admirable treatise on Mr. Justice Holmes (TIME, Jan. 4) should have seen fit to praise one of Holmes's rare public indiscretions, the rhapsodic defense of war. That was worthy of a Mussolini or the war lords of Germany and...
The Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free.
To his end at 93, Holmes preserved the unregenerate spirit he confessed, at 27, to William James: "There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me." But that was not the whole of it...
The prose parody, The Three Limperary Cripples, written in the manner of James Joyce, is less malicious, more successful. Wrote Justice Holmes (see .p. 84) to Sir Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book...