Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of the editorial candidates will consist chiefly of writing reviews of the different sports and Freshman activities. The epilogue and prologue of the Red Book will form an important part of the competition, and men with poetic ability are expected to attend the meeting. The competition will last about six weeks, at the end of which time ten men will be taken on the board. Another competition will be held among these ten to determine the third subchairmanship...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Sonorous Walter Hampden valiantly gives the poetic drama more than one leg to stand...
...sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace", risen to fanciful heights-but he shows a tendency to stay up for too long at one stretch. which gives a slight touch of the "precious" to his work; he does, however, put his final point across with neatness. The "Parable of Poetic License", by Mr. Leonard, is good imaginative fooling...
Thus in Committee of the whole (with Representative Graham of Illinois in the Chair) the great battle of oratory went on, not without poetic flourishes in the routine conflict of facts and figures. A Kansan brought out as an argument for the Mellon plan...
...Roman poetic literature reached its culmination in the work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...