Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound...
...then and a ready sale among Boston mothers, and any other mothers or daughters, etc., planning to invite large sections of Harvard students. In fact if the advertisements already sent to Boston matrons are to be believed the publication of the "Register" scheduled for October, roughly corresponds to the Millennium...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...
...listen to the last millennium's most important music would take a month. To read the essential literature of the last ten centuries would require several years. Last week nearly 1,000 years of Europe's art was visible in a day at the Cleveland Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Exhibition, celebrating the Great Lakes Exposition. Borrowed by suave, dapper, erudite Director William Mathewson Milliken in the astonishingly short time of five months, from U. S. museums and private collectors, from the Louvre in Paris and from half a dozen Italian collectors, Cleveland's paintings...
...theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything they get. The spirit of experimentation is vigorous and widespread. And what puts the golden cap of perfection on the whole situation is that the State pays all the bills...