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...Fight 'Em All") Summerall, retired U. S. Army Chief of Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
...LANG (Andrew) Ban and Arriere...
...LANG (Andrew) The Clyde Mystery. Mint...
Sidney S. Alexander of Forrest Hill, John D. Cook of Wilkinsburg, Pearson C. Cummin, Jr. of Devon, Harold B. Lang of AspinWall, Donald C. Logan of Turtle Creek, Harvey W. Miller of Wayne, William F. Read, 3rd, of Villa Nova, Irvin G. Shaffer of Reading, Grant E. Wesner of Reading...
...twenty-eighth English rendering of the Odyssey," says modest Translator Shaw, "can hardly be a literary event." Some of his 27 predecessors: George Chapman (1614), Alexander Pope (1726), William Cowper (1791), William Cullen Bryant (1871), William Morris (1887), George Herbert Palmer (1891). Samuel Butler (1900), S. H. Butcher & Andrew Lang (1898), A. T. Murray (1919). Scholastically, Shaw's translation ("made from the Oxford text, uncritically") may not please Homeric scholiasts. "I have not pored over contested readings, variants, or spurious lines. . . . Wherever choice offered between a poor and a rich word richness had it, to raise the color." Literarily, Shaw...