Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS...
...before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time, still proud, still beautiful, she came to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
...Column 3, page 25. It was not Cartoonist Powers whose pen identified the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna with the dollar sign. It was Homer Davenport...
When a silent, bespectacled, fidgety man resigned, last March, as chairman of the board of the Boston and Maine R. R. (TIME, March 26), many a voice was raised in applause and inquiry. It was generally conceded that Homer Loring had done well, for in February the road had made a new high operating record. It was generally asked what Homer Loring would do next, for no one believed the physician to ailing industries would be long without a patient...
...Fogg Art Museum opened a new display last Saturday, the most interesting paintings being a collection of watercolors by Homer and Sargent. A valuable Sixteenth Century tapestry depicting Hercules against a verdure background, the gift of Augustus Hemenway '75, has been hung in the great hall. This tapestry is particularly good in design and distinct in color...