Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer would have liked to work on the Tribune. . . . So would Horace. . . . So would Balzac, Addison, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, Hardy, Kipling and Mark Twain-The W.G.N., a handbook on the 75th anniversary (1922) of the Chicago Tribune...
...help stir doctors up about the "Red Plague," Dr. Homer F. Swift of the Rockefeller Institute gave two speeches at Harvard last week at the annual New England Postgraduate Assembly. He showed pictures of rheumatic fever victims, gave doctors practical tips for treatment...
Married. Cinedancer Ruby Keeler, 31, ex-wife of Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 29, Pasadena broker; in North Hollywood...
...more advanced I.Q. for the persecuted moviegoing public, and perhaps some day it will persuade Hollywood that movies can be an uplifting rather than a degrading force in American life. There are innumerable fields of cultural entertainment as yet untapped by the movie moguls. All the great literature from Homer to Galsworthy lie open; the copyrights are for the most part non-existent; the entertainment value is unquestioned. The only debatable factor is the American intelligence; and America, by its cold reception of the latest crop of Hollywood output, has pretty well proved that it is past...
Said Professor Bush: "The fundamental aim of traditional education was religious, ethical, and civic . . . . The aim and the justification of literature have always been, and must be, the ennobling and enrichment of the whole being. Greek boys were brought up on Homer, because Homer was a guide to life . . . . Roman boys studied Virgil . . . . for the same reason . . . . We should hate to guess the proportion of our students who are moved as Sir Philip Sidney was moved by the heroic example of Aeneas . . . ." Author Brooks decried the "baby talk" of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Said he: "The great themes...