Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Homer's cento-millenary saga...
...Died. Homer Cooke, 94, "oldest practicing lawyer in the U. S.," at Waukegan, Ill. He was a personal friend of Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt...
...miss all mention of the ring and clash of Homer, one may regret and archaeological attitude towards a living art, in this book, but one cannot deny that "The Achievement of Greece" ably fulfills its purpose, and that purpose is a most excellent...
...peace, the hall-mark of Utopian endeavor. What he said is well known ?too well known to need elucidation or exemplification; but what is more important is that his stirring appeals have as yet been unrewarded, and, apparently, his high aspirations for the League of Nations are, in Homer's words, "late, late in fulfillment." The reasons for publishing this book at the present time are obscure. In 1919 and part of 1920 these speeches were extremely pertinent to the general situation, but in four years the situation has changed. The Treaty of Versailles was overthrown...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...