Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute was deeply troubled. Gen. William Horner Cocke (Virginia National Guard) had resigned as V.M.I. superintendent. Soldier-Educators were hard to find. Last week a committee of the Board of Visitors called upon Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune, lately relieved as Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps (TIME, Feb. 18) and asked if he would accept the superintendency if it were officially tendered. He indicated he would...
...Probably the wife of Zebedee, mother of the apostles John and James (not the author of the Epistle). Not to be confused with Salome, daughter of Herodias, who danced for Tetrarch Herod and asked for the head of John the Baptist. But Dancer Salome could have witnessed the resurrection, since her famed dance took place only 13 months before...
Americans owned eleven of the horses which made the first charge. Among them was the favorite, Easter Hero, 9 to 1, from the stable of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Easter Hero carried 175 pounds. Shortly after the start he swung gracefully into the lead. Over Becher's Brook, over Valentine's Brook, around the treacherous canal turn he swung, taking the leaps with daring ease. On and on to what seemed to be sure victory. But the turf was soggy from two days of rain. The field crept closer and closer. At the last hedge but one, Easter...
...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...