Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crude in some parts and lacks the balance and proportion of the Homeric epic, yet, says Professor J. G. Robertson, "neither in the Iliad nor the Odyssey--nowhere, indeed, in the epic poetry of any people--has the tragic movement of events been depicted upon such a sublime scale as in the second part of the Nibelimgen...
...Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington's day. Neither Juliet nor the reader ever sees Miss Tiverton, but the black cat, sunning himself on the wall between the two houses, is a competent viceroy...
...MANIFEST DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). Here are history, fiction, and destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes...
...alone in the casual caustic. One profound commentator on national life has found Americans to be a race of Rotarians, thinking only of themselves. Another novelist places these unfortunates low in the scale by declaring them to be a race of rather nasty people, seeking primarily to satisfy their lowest impulses. A foreign writer glances across the ocean and through the haze of three thousand miles deduces that they are prigs, smug claimants of virtue where no virtue exists. A recent visitor to Boston pronounces them a lazy people, desiring luxury and case. And their most consistent critic declares that...
...connection with the social service work now being planned on an extensive scale at the Philips Brooks House, T. A. Gibson, of Trinity Church, an authority on social welfare work, made the following statement in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday; "Boys' clubs are not so troublesome to manage as is generally believed, if a few definite principles on running games are observed. A supervisor should be persistent in providing a varied program at each gathering of his club. If this presented in a regular fashion, no disorder need be anticipated...