Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled...
...third stratum of Joyce's book even deeper meanings appear. Stephen represents the intellect, the creative imagination; Mrs. Bloom the earth, the flesh; Bloom the average half-intelligent, half-sensual man. Like ancient Troy, Ulysses is many cities on one foundation. If the plain reader keeps on digging he may discover that each of Ulysses' 18 episodes is written in its own style, in which Joyce has tried to blend the minds of the characters, the place, atmosphere, feeling of the time of day. Each episode turns on an organ of the body, an art and a particular...
...stated "Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death." This insinuates that Chief Pay Clerk John W. Troy, killed in that accident, was not an officer. May I inform you that Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer in every sense of the word as indicated by his commission which reads exactly the same as that of any other commissioned officer with the exception of his title...
...without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...