Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great. The finds mostly corroborated evidence unearthed at other sites. Most significant discovery: remnants of the Servian wall, built in 387 B.C., which gave new clues to the urban layout of early Rome. Most interesting discovery: extensive graffiti (scurrilous wall scribblings) in the brothels-some in parody of Virgil and Horace, some in Greek. Said one delighted archeologist: the "richest collection" of classic wall pornography ever. The archeologists buried most of the collection again, under lock...
...said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal but uttered not a word. Among the new members who were to be formally inducted (but failed to show up): Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet W. H. Auden, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson and Critic Bernard De Voto...
Heavenly. In Jonesboro, Ark., two Saints (Virgil and Richard) and an Angel (Louis) were fined for drunkenness...
Continuing the successful first quarter century of the Club's history, the inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...
...HATFIELDS AND THE McCoys (293 pp.)-Virgil Carrington Jones-Chapel Hill...