Word: pelion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received little attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion of lack-lustre emotion and getting, as the Giants in the legend did, exactly nowhere...
...faculty should consider the subjects that can be covered in undergraduate work, rather than increase the years in law school from three to four. For while an extra year would give time for worthwhile special study, the rank and file of men should not be compelled to pile Pelion on Ossa in an already burdensome education...
Author Fessier piles Pelion on Ossa by declaring, at the end of his little old book: "The characters and situations in this work are wholly fictional and imaginative, and do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties...
...promptly appealed but the next day a Federal grand jury in Topeka piled a Pelion of indictments upon the Ossa of his conviction. Indictments were returned against him for using the mails to defraud, for sending raised checks through the mail, for sending false telephone company statements through the mail, for misapplying $146,000 of a national bank's funds. Those indicted on various counts included not only Father Finney. Son Finney, Leland Caldwell (Son Finney's assistant) and Tom Boyd, ex-State Treasurer, but also Carl W. McKeen, president of the National Bank of Topeka...
...announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned to the Marine Corps, leaving Philadelphia as wet as ever. Scarcely had he arrived at his new post at San Diego when he piled Ossa on the Pelion of his unpopularity by having his Navy host (whom he ranked) court-martialed for drunkenness...