Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before Raleigh brought the weed to the Old World. This type of evidence has no scientific value, no statistical basis, and is of interest only as a revelation of personalities and of the fact that no dogmatic statement can be predicated...
...Homer Croy...
...author of West of the Water Tower* is tall, shy, wears a loose Oxford tie, is actually modest. He is also from Missouri. That, however, is not why he published his very successful novel anonymously. Homer Croy, having been a writer of humorous stories in the past, was afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...
...exposition contains 75 oil paintings and water colors by Sargent, 63 by Dodge MacKnight, 55 by Winslow Homer, 9 marble and 20 bronze busts by Paul Manship...
Word now comes that in the quiet of his Mississippi home he is rereading Horace, Homer, and Sophocles, love for which were developed 50 years ago at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), at the Uni-versity of Virginia and at the Uni-versity of Heidelberg...