Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says it is very easy as we are really all Grows...
...Lillian includes bits of description worthy Homer at his blindest--to wit. "The pipe was a decrepit article, smudged duskily and he cherished it like the family jewels," and this almost transcendental athletic episode. "The second quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
Professor George H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will lecture in Emerson D. on February 10, at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Homer...
...deeply as when he stands in the presence of the venerable monuments of antiquity. This is what makes a visit to Rome, Athens, or Memphis so impressive, so full of awe. In the Museum are written records of a period so ancient as to make moderns of Moses and Homer, revealing a civilization so remote as to fill our minds with wonder. These oldest remains come, of course, from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the culture of which was a mixture of Semitic and non-Semitic elements. This culture profoundly influenced the younger branches of the Semitic stock, and, through them...
...HOMER GUCK...