Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Revivals (Enrico Caruso. Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich. Antonio Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Louise Homer and others; Victor; 8 sides). Despite their mechanical and tonal obsolescence, Victor's oldtime recordings prove that the Golden Age voices were as beautiful as oldtimers claim...
Spink met World War II by changing his paper to a tabloid and introducing news of other sports, too. Circulation dipped only onefourth, to 125,000. Then Spink hit his homer: an eight-page edition for servicemen...
Example: when Yale's President Timothy Dwight the Younger demanded that English Instructor Cross drop his idea of giving a course in the "ungodly" and ''sexy" modern novel back in the mid-'gos Cross acquiesced. But he slyly observed that the study of Homer's Iliad woul 1 have to be abolished from courses in Greek, for the Iliad was obviously a story about the illicit intrigue between Paris and Helen. The next year Cross gave his course in the modern novel...
...Barit only commented: "These are war times and we are dealing with the Government. This is no time to stir up a controversy." But many a Detroit industrialist, jittery over the Navy's precipitate action, pressed Washington for a complete explanation. At week's end, Truman Committeeman Homer Ferguson of Michigan was probing the mystery...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...