Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston University?stating that it is not merely an institution which exists in Boston, but an institution which exists for Boston?announced a fortnight ago a comprehensive group of law courses for the police officers of all cities and towns of Greater Boston. Under the direction of Dean Homer Albers and Prof. Melvin M. Johnson, these courses will be given by Charles Willock, Assistant Clerk of the Municipal Criminal Court of Boston; A. C. Webber, former Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County; Capt. Louis Lutz, Drillmaster of the Boston police force...
Poet Cowper, intermittently insane, lived to translate Homer. Curate Newton was advanced to a better "living...
...Pulitzer read omnivorously. ... Like most of us who were fed educationally on Homer in our youth, Mr. Pulitzer reserved the Odyssey as a treasure to be enjoyed in later years. He had long looked forward to the celebrated episode of the wooden horse. Coming to the event he found it described in seven rather dull lines. 'I was so d-d mad,' he remarked, 'that I could have kicked Homer...
...Buffalo, hulking Homer Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, spent an evening knocking down Battling Siki, polygamous Sengalese. Next day, Siki's left eye was such a different color from the rest of his face, and of such an unusual shape, that he repaired to the New York Boxing Commission and postponed his en counter with Jock McDonald, sched uled for four days later...
...Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...