Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mascali was most certainly the town which first would be obliterated. Here young peasant maids crossed themselves, paused a moment at the churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
...swear was only "damned" and should be carefully distinguished from an oath. Although oaths and swears are losely synonymous, a proper swear is chiefly descriptive, and need not involve that blasphemous appeal to a Higher Power which is the distinguishing characteristic of an oath. "Zeus damn you, Sir!" is a blasphemous you appeal to Zeus, and a proper oath: while "Sir, you are a Zeus damned liar!" is an affirmation, and a proper swear...
...Early Doric Temples and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia," Professor G. H. Chase, Fogg Museum...
...taken in by the misleading lady (Phillis Haver), he has lost successively his whiskers, sobriety, chastity, bonds, nerve and identity. The world believes him the victim of bandits. Repentant, he obscures himself to preserve that illusion for the good name of his beloved children. Years later, the bedraggled old Zeus is pictured peeping through frost-dimmed windows to behold from his own shadowed squalor the riches and happiness of his grown-up family. While Mr. Jannings is on the screen, as he is most of the time, even the bleary portions of the film are compelling...
...their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them up." This 95-percenter was energetic Editor Herbert Bayard Swope of the World, among whose favorite pastimes is sitting, a sharp-witted, rufous Zeus, among lesser immortals of his metromundane Olympus, being "it" (all alone) in a game of Nebuchadnezzar. When Ask Me Another! was published last week it contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope did better on "Current Politics," getting 96%. Grantland Rice produced an immaculate 100% on "sports...