Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder called the toast for "His Majesty our Exalted War Lord...
...studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station at Astapovo...
Among the runners winning without handicap were W. C. Rowe '30 who took the 110-yard low hurdles in 13 3-5 seconds and also the 220-yard dash in 24 seconds: N. P. Beveridge '32, who took the high jump, reaching 5 feet, 10 inches: Oscar Sutermeister '32, who pole vaulted 12 feet, 3 inches: F. J. Mardulier '30, who took the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 4-5 seconds: J. S. Marsh '32, who was victor in the javelin throw with a heave of 161 feet, 8 inches; and F. C. Fitts '33, who put the shot...
Experience, said Oscar Wilde, is the name men give to their mistakes. Although there could be no general agreement as to whether or not the Stockmarket crash of Oct. 23 et seq. was a mistake, last week found most economists and many a businessman looking for the "lesson...
...dismissed as "that bizarre compound of rickety Buddhism and bric-a-brac Christianity." When Maupassant, mewed in his asylum, waited for death, "he became a mere machine, and perhaps the only pleasure he experienced was the hallucination of bands of black butterflies that seemed to sweep across his room." Oscar Wilde "was a born newspaper man." Critic Huneker was never content merely to criticize a man's works? he discussed the man himself, gossiped, told tales out of school...