Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...
...pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married one Ferner Nuhn of Cedar Falls, la. She lives in Manhattan, where she likes the literary atmosphere. Other books: Country People, The Odyssey of a Nice Girl, Iowa Interiors, The Bonney Family, Cora, The Kramer Girls...
...long odyssey of Miner Home is unusual because it has a perfect ending. On the shores of Grand Lake, Nova Scotia, near the town of Enfield where he was born 66 years ago, he has retired on his winnings, built for himself a big dwelling in the seclusion of the pines...
...Bouwerie in similar fashion, concluded that the vault-batterers had intended to hold a Vanderbilt body for ransom. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (alias Aircraftsman Shaw), soldier of fortune and author (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert), was dis covered to be translating Homer's Odyssey into English verse. Augusta, Ga. is booming its winter-resort possibilities. A committee was formed to co-ordinate all sports (golf, polo, tennis, horse shows, race meets, baseball). The chairman: Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, oldtime American League baseballer (Detroit...
Most Ulysses readers know that the book covers the events of one day among a group of Dublin bourgeois. Gilbert even knows what day it was: June 16, 1904. Each of Ulysses' 18 episodes, besides parelleling similar scenes in the Odyssey, represents a different Art (e. g. architects philology) and Bodily Organ (esophagus, heart) and is told with a different and appropriate technique (narrative, catechizing). With his running comment, frequent quotations, scholarly footnotes, Translator Gilbert gives you almost a substitute for the book itself...