Word: spartanism
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...Sparta, Thebes and Corinth, summoned the women of these towns to meet her in Mr. Bel Geddes' rich-hued, towering Acropolis. The older women arrived first, overpowered the guards, seized the citadel and the treasury. Somewhat tardily, the sleepy-eyed belles of Athens appeared, followed by big-boned Spartan women, country girls from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should be declared. Because the men had been away for six months, and because the ladies...
...goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying and other factors useful to commercial aviation...
...From West Point came announcement of a Spartan schedule, including Harvard...
Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof was crowded last week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise...
...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...