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Word: homers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit?was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Forain Vexed | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...rendering "The Moon Goes Drifting" by Homer Grunn and "Nocturne" by Pearl G. Curran, M. Marcoux sang with a lyrical power which is at once his peculiar beauty and forte. The quality of simplicity was unmarred by sentimentality and the full purity of voice awakened keen appreciative pleasure...

Author: By F. DEW. P., | Title: MELLOW BARITONE GIVES FINE RECITAL | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...schedule of the examinations is as follows: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 Bible and Shakespere, 2-4 o'clock New Lect. Hall THURSDAY, APRIL 29 Homer, 2-3 o'clock Memorial Hall Sophocies, 3.15-4.15 o'clock Memorial Hall FRIDAY, APRIL 30 History and Literature, general examination, 9-1 o'clock Memorial Hall Virgil, Horace, Plato, Aristotle, Chaucer, Milton, Dante, Cervantes, Moliere, Goethe, 2-4 o'clock Memorial Hall SATURDAY, MAY 1 Anthropology, written Peabody Museum MONDAY, MAY 3 English Literature, 2-5 o'clock Memorial Hall TUESDAY, MAY 4 Greek translation; Honors, Distinction and second year Honors, 9-12 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APRIL 28 TO MAY 25 SET AS GENERAL AND HONOR EXAMINATION PERIOD | 3/30/1926 | See Source »

...book sparkles with quotable lines. Apropos of the statement that Irving Berlin can neither read nor write music, Dr. Collins observes: "Some who have heard his compositions will say 'I knew it!'" And then he adds: "Homer could neither read nor write and his poetry has stirred the hearts of thousands of generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...BOOTH AND THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN?Bernie Babcock?Lippincott ($2). *Dr. Collins' error. One thousand generations equals 33,000 years. Homer lived about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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