Word: troy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot help wondering what Poe would have written of "Helen of Troy, latest vaudeville dance drama" which was recently put on the stage in New York. It is characterized as "fine art and excellent entertainment, swiftly and colorfully telling the greatest story in the world of poetry." Homer alive, and in a nutshell! The age or miracles and--for some of us--scepticism, is not altogether past. And Poe is out-Heroded by the press agent...
...some--what--oh, you talking to me?--I was in Troy...
...poems on Helen of Troy (to whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...
...games played at Troy under the New York State League rules resulted in just as easy victories for the Trojans. The deciding game was played at Reading, the arrangement calling for one half to be played under the rules of each league. The home team elected to play the first half under the New York State rules and the Troy team ran up a fair-sized lead. Then the second half under the Eastern League rules and with their own referee officiating resulted in the Reading team gradually overcoming the lead of the Trojans, and winning by a margin...
...illustration of the rule I might say that in the first half the New York State referee called something like a total of twenty or twenty-one fouls, while in the second half the Eastern League official called twenty-three on Troy and seventeen on Reading, a total of forty, or an average of two fouls a minute. On the total number of points for the five games the Troy team had a big advantage, gained by the large number of baskets scored from the floor and upon which the game was originally intended to be decided rather than upon...