Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Boll, on Long Island, consoled herself with Oliver C. Le Boutillier and Captain Arthur Argles, War aces. Miss Earhart, at Trepassey, Newfoundland, admired the scenery. Both made false starts; both panted at the leash of bad weather...
...purpose: to enable photographers in time of war to fly high above enemy territory and laugh at anti-aircraft guns popping uselessly beneath them...
...deal intelligently with any civilization or any problem: Dr. Meiklejohn and eleven instructors gave the students a program of reading, conference, discussion, papers to be handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review, written by each student, of a modern book called the Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson. A few outsiders, such as Irishman George Russell (AE), lectured...
Died. Alfred G. Smith, 53, president of the American Shipbuilding Co., pioneer shipbuilder who-began work at 15, made his family concern the biggest ship business on the Great Lakes, and directed the construction of 200 ships during the War; after a four months' illness; in Cleveland...
...years, specializing in the model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous to Fra Gherardo was Debora e Jaele, an opera about a Hebrew prophetess in which, as in the more recent work, Pizzetti made frequent use of a crowded stage...