Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name, a new figure, a new power, arrived last week in Chicago. All were bound up in the person of Homer Guck (pronounced "Guke"). Upon the resignation of Merrill Church Meigs as publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, William Randolph Hearst appointed Mr. Guck to the post...
...well are Homer Guck's name and potency known. When Mr. Hearst's general manager. Col. William Franklin Knox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
Whitmore suffered his first defeat of the season yesterday, yielding seven hits, one of them a homer, during his four innings of service. The inexperienced Molloy, who relieved him, showed good form on the mound and promises well for the future. Hensil, Villanova's hurling ace who shut out the Crimson 8 to 0 last year, performed well for the most part and was ably supported by his teammates...
Outwardly he was always brusque and repellent. A certain savagery marked his very face. He once observed that, in introducing a character, Homer is apt to draw attention to the eye. Certainly in himself this was the feature which first attracted notice; for his eye had uncommon alertness and intelligence...
...Among a few friends he could tell a capital story and enjoy a well-cooked dish. But his ordinary fare was meagre in the extreme. For one of his heartier meals he would cut a piece of meat into bits and roast it on a spit, as Homer's people roasted theirs. "Why not use a gridiron?" I once asked, "It is not the same," he said, "The juice then runs into the fire. But when I turn my spit it bastes itself...