Word: parthenon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marbles for which England is most famed are the Elgin marbles, a collection of Greek sculptures which Lord Elgin plucked from the Parthenon at Athens in the early 19th Century, now one of the most noteworthy possessions of the British Museum. To the natives of the little village of Tinsley Green, however, the Elgin marbles are nothing at all. The marbles they talk about are the lively glassies and marididdles that determine the annual marbles championship of England, oldest sporting event in the Kingdom. Through 18 reigns, since a day in 1588 when two village Hodges played for the favors...
...chic woman beside one of the virgins of the Parthenon, and that will be a sight to burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...
...face of its new $6,000,000 Parthenon-like building, the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh last week found painted in letters six feet high the New York University-Carnegie Tech football score: N.Y.U. 18. C.T. 14. The fan who did the job, a New Yorker but no N.Y.U. alumnus, was soon discovered, but Pittsburgh police could not extradite him for malicious mischief. Meantime, the institute's scientists in whom U.S. tycoons have invested $11,478,406 for industrial research, notably into paints and chemicals, threw all their resources into removing the black asphalt paint. In the end, they could...
...architects who planned the stacks so that they are as accessible to the common Harvard student as the burial chamber of Cheops to the common Egyptian serf; and in Fine Arts le Professor Koehler will probably continue to compare the exterior dimensions of Widener to those of the Parthenon, unaware of the irony should his listeners be inclined to contrast their interiors...
Professor Koehler selects the slides for each lecture, but often he is interrupted by the appearance of an inverted Parthenon or a painting heralded as a Monet which turns out to be a Rembrandt. In one of the last lectures before Reading Period one of the two prejectors was out of commission, and the class was consequently disorganized and its value lost...