Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Homer Cummings last year, marshals and deputies were required to be fingerprinted. Seven were discovered to have criminal records. Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
...knew where this left Homer Martin. That it left him somewhere in the minority, only Homer Martin questioned. C. I. O.'s Thomas claimed the support of locals representing 315,236 of U. A. W.'s 380,000. Homer Martin, finding it wise to deal in round numbers, said he had about 200,000. Delegates on hand at the weekend demonstrably represented...
Byoir. Hovering near Homer Martin all week was A. F. of L.'s Detroit representative, Joseph Cummings...
...Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call it Shakespeare...
...other men who participated in the contest, Lee Bird, Chet Legg, Charley Lutz, and Sam White are Juniors, while Homer Peabody is a Sophomore. Yale has selected Tom Erickson and Al Stevens to be co-captains of their 1939-40 cage squad, and the next Harvard leader will probably be chosen at the squad picture Wednesday...