Word: classicized
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...German Classic...
...many, the daring experiment of farcing what was obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help...
Trailing African Wild Animals. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson are the latest tripod nimrods to return to Broadway with the pelts and carcasses (in celluloid) of giraffes and jungle tigers. In the classic English of a recent advertisement they bring the " mighty monarchs of the murky morass, pinioned and pictured...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...
...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...