Word: classicized
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Captain Cummings should hold his own with Colebrook, in front of the cage, and goal tending of classic proportions seems to be in store for the spectators tonight
...Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian war scenes and practices, hunting scenes of Assumbanipal, the Sardanapalus of Classic writers...
Nevertheless, he has resurrected "the sick man of Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable...
They fought for ten rounds and no one was knocked out. Delaney, 17 pounds the lighter, hammered and hammered at that classic freckled face. "Young Bob" did nothing effective save dodge, cover and stay conscious. His legs bore him well, and once or twice he looked awkward enough to be a dangerous Fitzsimmons. But the upshot was a decision for Delaney and sportdom's verdict that, though Young Bob's chin is in the paternal tradition, his fists and will...
Teacher John Thomas Scopes remains convicted. The "classic struggle" has been permitted, by its erstwhile foam-mouthed partisans on both sides, to dwindle into obscurity. The anti-evolution law stands in Tennessee, but, satisfied with their momentarily magnificent gesticulations, the evolutionist newspapers no longer keep bright the diadem of obloquy with which they crowned that state...