Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, got another B. A. Back in the U. S. he talked of becoming a publisher. Finally he bowed to his father's wish, has been cramming spasmodically in Mellon National since 1931. He last made news when he and Lucius Beebe, famed japestering newsman, won a prize magnum of champagne offered by Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino for the first guests of the season to arrive by horse & sleigh. Dick Mellon, however, took to power from the start. He entered Mellon National immediately after he graduated from Princeton in 1922, was made an assistant cashier...
Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
Authoress Buck's magnum opus is not her own. She herself does not know who the author was, says it might have been Shih Nai-an but thinks it more likely that this massive (1,279-page) medieval novel, like the cathedrals of France, the epics of Homer, was the work of many forgotten hands. First written down some six centuries ago, it probably had wide if fragmentary currency 200 years before that. Says Translator Buck: "All Men Are Brothers is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made...
...English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years she could not get even a part of her magnum opus (The Making of Americans) printed; her influence has been largely vicarious, and she has not always approved of the writers (notably Ernest Hemingway) whom she has influenced. But she has never stopped writing. "One of the things that I have liked all these years is to be surrounded...
...Shropshire Lad, 1896) brought him a reputation, but not the one he was after. While his younger brother Laurence was turning out a stream of second-rate novels and stories, A. E. Housman was making his name feared and respected among scholars as editor of Latin poets. His magnum opus, the editing of Manilius (4,258 lines) took him more than 30 years, was finally completed in 1930. As a scholar he is famed not only for his accuracy and arrogance but for his blasting criticisms of more slipshod predecessors who stood in his way; passages of his preface...