Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orator spoke with as much justice as courtesy. For Mr. Loeb, onetime member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed banking house,* is founder of the Loeb Classical Library, which provides texts and translations of "all that is of value and interest in Greek and Latin literature, from the time of Homer to the fall of Constantinople...
...were only the comedy relief. Copey began to read. Bless us! what sonorous organ-tones rolled out of that little body seated in the swivel chair. And what was the witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard...
...Frederick Hill, Chairman, Miss Constance Doe; W. F. Homer, Miss Audrey Newton: E. R. Hubbard, Miss Mary Barringer: H. B. Molholm, Miss Louiso Rock: P. E. Mosely, Miss Mabel Cotton: R. E. Smith, Miss Doris Dickie...
...Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found...
...wander in a foreign land without TIME. I'll just as soon be in jail. We Americans over here pass it around until it looks like something that has been under the carpet since the Spanish-American War. It brings Home to us and drops it in our laps. HOMER CROV...