Word: samsonic
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...photographs, drawings, and paintings are dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
...Samson Agonistes", Professor Rice, Emerson...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...perfectly clear that the author's intention is to lay bare without any compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
First to leave the U. S. is the stout sailing boat City of New York (nee Samson), veteran of Arctic service, with the three airplanes and.all explorers except a small group headed by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd himself. This smaller group will leave during the middle of September from Hampton Roads, Va., on the whaler Larsen. Both ships are scheduled to reach Dunedin, New Zealand, in the last week of October. Here a third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales...