Word: classicized
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...aftermath to a career which has reached the pinnacle of fame. It is almost ironical that Thomas Hardy, whose name will in time probably stand at the head of the list of his eminent contemporaries, should outlive them all. Furthermore, it is strange that an author whose "classic pessimism" is his outstanding characteristic should outlast his own age and live to a comfortable and happy senility in a generation whose chaos might justify his pessimism...
...indoor athletic plant about which there has been so much discussion recently provides a classic example of the unwise use of the conditional gift. A donor, as yet anonymous, has offered to present the Harvard Athletic Association with one third the estimated cost of erecting such a building, estimated at present at about one million dollars. The site that this building is to occupy has already been chosen and plans have tentatively been drawn, while Mr. Bingham and his aides are attempting to raise the some $600,000 that are still necessary for the structure's erection...
Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
Isadora Duncan was one of those people upon whom life showers a fountain of adventurous fire. In her native U. S., when she sang the Marseillaise and did a classic dance, she was a triumph equally in Manhattan and in the dusty villages of the West. In Europe she attained a high degree of notoriety by refusing to become the mistress of famed Gabriel d'Annunzio; but despite her dislike, frequently made manifest, for the convention of marriage, she permitted herself to be wedded by noted Russian Poet Sergei Yessenin. Their marriage was as brief as a liaison...
Freshmen in Berkeley Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...