Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt last week nominated John W. Troy, Juneau publisher of the Alaska Empire, to be Governor of Alaska. Other nominations: Mississippi's James William Collier, onetime chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, to be a Tariff Commissioner; Nebraska's James H. Hanley, to be a Radio Commissioner. Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime Governor of Wyoming, was in line for appointment as Treasurer of the U. S., a job which would put her name on all paper money...
...presented Wednesday and Friday of this week by the Harvard Classical Club, was a work of the poet's extreme old age, for it was produced when he was eighty-seven. The legend of the wounded hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological...
...troubled conscience of the young man. When Philoctetes in a fit of agony intrusts to him the coveted bow and arrows Neoptolemus refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus to return the bow to its owner and even to promise to take him home to Greece. His kindness almost breaks down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend...
From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...