Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth...
...exhibition this week in the Memorial Room at the Library. These include the early English chronicles of the New World across the sea written by Holingshead, Hardyng, and Purchas, all printed before the first half of the seventeenth century; and also a copy of Chapman's first translation of Homer, inscribed by the author...
Chapman's early translation of Homer is entitled "The Crowne of all Homeres Worckes, Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mice". This is also a presentation copy inscribed to "ye Righte Virtuouse and worthie Gent: Mr. Henry Reynolds...
Died. Mrs. Carlotta Dolley Saint-Gaudens, miniature painter, wife of Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts at Carnegie Institute; in Pittsburgh...
...Homer Croy, author of "West of the Water Tower" and the recent published "Fancy Lady", has spoken of modern religion with an agreeable un-assertiveness in an interview published yesterday in the Herald. Sounding the death knell of the clergyman and predicting the early disappearance of what he calls the "Sunday School kind of religion. Mr. Croy is the herald of a replacing social philosophy. This theory is especially interesting when he declares that Sinclair Lewis is not the only thinker to share it: rather, almost all the young American intelligentsia, even including members of the clergy like a John...