Word: seneca
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Although he has permission to absent himself from the trial if the strain be comes too much for his health, old Samuel Insull taxied or bussed over from the Hotel Seneca to the courthouse every morning before ten. He submitted grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried...
...Seneca, Kans., neighbors were glad that bed-ridden Marietta Bishop was being so well cared for by her Daughter Myrtle. For two and a half years Myrtle had given them news of the old lady, had made them write her notes, had trudged to the post-office every month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk...
...Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...
...most important commercial house in southeastern Europe. When a run began on it last year. Austria tried to aid it, bringing on a crisis which spread to Germany where London banks became involved. The crisis became international and over half of the world was forced off the gold standard. Seneca to Bethlehem. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second biggest, is weak as a producer of sheet steel. Its only sheet plant is at Sparrows Point. Md.. where 130,000 tons can be turned out annually against U. S. Steel's 2,000,000. Bethlehem was blocked in its attempt...
...modern literature which have been modelled on the Classics, a student should have a broader knowledge than the required study of two ancient authors can give him. To derive the most from his study of English drama, a man should have read in the original Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, and to appreciate to the full his English satire he should know Horace, Ovid, and Persius. If, because of the ill-adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools, men cannot get their grounding in grammar of Classical languages there, and if because of pressing requirements of concentration and distribution, men cannot...