Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
...himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country and the Dominions is very strongly in favor of ... the American proposal. ... It would be an advantage if that [fact] could be stated . . . formally and emphatically ... by the Foreign Secretary...
Last week, to both parties' alarm, Senator Borah frowned his Olympian frown, waved his Bryanesque backlocks and handed out to Presidential candidates a questionnaire on the great Hush-Hush of the 1928 campaign, Prohibition. It was a sequel to the Borah speaking tour on the same subject (TIME, Nov. 28). It threatened to make a political issue out of a subject in which citizens are actually interested...
...loss becomes a personal one. For while Thomas Hardy in real life might be described as retiring and shy, his dominating philosophy of life and strength of character move through his works of prose and poetry like the spirit of the storm and the whirlwind. And, although gathered to Olympian heights to join the immortals, he leaves a monument of colossal magnitude and superb achievement to all posterity...
...large degree the number and character of those persons qualified to merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside him how does Miss Loos, how does even Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of his splendid achievements, stand...