Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes a Frenchman to make a lady of Venus. Author de Miomandre does it, in much the same way that Author John Erskine refurbished the reputation of Helen of Troy. In a politely gossipy conversational manner which suits the Frenchman better than it did the U. S. professor. Author de Miomandre gives as complete as possible a biography of Venus: in her peculiar case her biography is the history of her love life...
...Troy Kinney of Manhattan whose specialty is the dance, finds his chief recreation during the outdoor season at his country place near New Canaan, Conn., where dancers pose and pirouette for him with only Nature's scenery, personal or otherwise...
...Manhattan last week it became known that Modernist Composer George Antheil and Writer John Erskine were planning to collaborate on an opera, the heroine to be Helen of Troy. Composer Antheil, a native of Trenton, N. J., began his musical career in Paris, returned to the U. S. in 1927, won notoriety with his Ballet Mécanique scored for ten pianos, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
William Leland Thompson, of Troy, New York...