Word: saga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...
...away by enthusiasm and admiration and present a distorted Joe Forecast to his public. And I would not have my self of my ancestors distorted. In order to make sure that no idolatrous hero worship creeps in, I will write the article myself." And that is how the Forecast Saga came into being...
...gradually grew the drama, and the other forms of literature, as we now know them. From it arose on the shores of the Aegean the story of Orestes, one of the most poetical of Greek characters; from it there sprung up among the Norsemen of the Baltic the ancient saga of Hamlet...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...
Tonight's lecture at the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock by Dr. John Haynes Holmes on Mahatma Ghandi should be more than worth-while. I would not miss such an opportunity to hear an eminent Occidental divine discuss an eminent Orientals saga...