Word: sylvanus
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...SYLVANUS K. POST...
...SYLVANUS K. POST...
...first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...
...steeped in a mood of finality which would give it dignity even if it were less thoughtfully written. When George Arliss did it on the stage a few critics ventured with their praise the criticism that he seemed too frail and sharpened a man to represent perfectly that lusty Sylvanus Heythorp who in his extreme old age perpetrated a shady transaction to insure the prosperity of his illegitimate family and who died after an eight-course dinner accompanied by a bottle of champagne, three glasses of port, some vintage brandy. The fact that critics could question the obvious reality...
...time less than one hundred cadets had graduated, sixty-five of whom were still in active service. Although most of these graduates served in subordinate positions throughout the war, their services won commendation, and many were brevetted for gallantry in action. In 1817 Major Sylvanus Thayer, a graduate of Dartmouth and West Point and a veteran of 1812, was appointed Superintendant of the Academy. He was especially qualified to take charge of West Point; his system, many parts of which are evident at the present time, for sixteen years had the greatest influences on cadet life...