Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thermopylae, a Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the Duke of Brunswick's German forces...
...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
...heights of Salamis overlooking the Bay of Eleusis, the mighty Persian, Xerxes, in 480 B. C. watched his fleet sink under attack of 300 Greek battleships...
Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 34, longtime cinema Tarzan, No. 1 swimmer of the New York World's Fair Aquacade; and Beryl Laura Scott, 23, daughter of the owner of San Francisco's Turko-Persian Rug Cleaning Co.; he for the third time, she for the first; in Garfield...
...This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, heroically defended in 480 B.C. by King Leonidas with 2.000 soldiers against Xerxes' Persian hordes. Recently they found spears, arrows and other weapons on the site (TIME, May 22). Last week word came from Athens that the diggers had identified the hill to which, according to Historian Herodotus, a handful of Spartans withdrew with the body of Leonidas, later beheaded and crucified at Xerxes' orders. The diggers also found four tombs, one of which was believed to be that of Hero Leonidas himself...