Word: parnassus
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...gentle man, still colors up when he remembers it: "I had to control myself as hard as I ever did in my life, not to give her a piece of my mind." The round-the-world trip ended in New York, and Webster ended - in time - on that Parnassus of Midwestern newspaper men, the New York World. Webster, along with any number of employes and readers, still remembers the death of Pulitzer's World in 1931 as nothing short of tragic...
...expressions aroused so much wrath among his Mt. Vernon, N.Y. neighbors that he asked police to protect his home. He was expelled from the New York Athletic Club, expelled from the Poetry Society of America. "But no executive committee," cried he, "can take away from me my pass to Parnassus...
...Greek from Malis, betrayed the Spartans by leading the Persians through a mountain path around to the rear of the Greeks. Last week the Germans finally took Thermopylae by the same operation, but, like the pass, on a much wider scale, a swing far to the west of Mt. Parnassus...
Despite the mountain air of Parnassus, the nine Muses probably have hacking coughs. Genius and tuberculosis, as critics and physicians have long noted, occur together oftener than coincidence accounts for. Dr. Lewis Jefferson Moorman, onetime dean of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, takes this thesis for granted, illustrates and defines it in Tuberculosis and Genius this week...
...puzzled by a mysterious group of seven strangers who wore tight-fitting coats, slouch hats, vast cravats. It was next to impossible to tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...