Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London three statesmen have been wrestling with dollars, pounds and francs as the mythical Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons once wrestled with snakes which crushed them for the crime of defying Apollo. Recently the London News Chronicle, which favors cartoons of classic inspiration, printed a Laocoon group (see cut) in which the currency serpents coil around British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, James M. Cox, U. S. Delegate and Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain...
...political practice. Raymond Moley has come far by his own wits since his humble birth at Berea, Ohio, outside Cleveland. His grandfather, Hippolyte Moley, was a Frenchman who went to Trinity College, Dublin, married an Irish woman. A precocious child, "Ray" Moley was reading Ivanhoe at 7. discussing the Trojan Wars at 8. At 19 he was graduated with a Ph.B. by Berea's Baldwin-Wallace College. Migrating to the neighboring village of Olmsted Falls, he served as superintendent of schools, was elected mayor at 21. Tuberculosis drove him to Denver. Two years later he was back in Ohio...
...affair. By judicious scheming, trickery, persuasion Pandar arranges a meeting, silences scruples, fans the flame, stages an assignation at his house on a stormy night. Troilus wins his love and is temporarily happy. Then Calchas in the Greek camp manages to get his daughter exchanged for a Trojan prisoner. Greek Warrior Diomede cocks his helmet at her, and soon to good purpose. Pining Troilus hears rumors of Cressida's faithlessness. When they are confirmed he is not sorry to meet death on Achilles' spear. Famed English Sculptor Eric Gill (who did inter alia the Leeds University War Memorial...
...chivalry is dead at Southern California as far as football rallies are concerned. No longer will men be afraid of splitting the ear drums of coeds when yelling for the Trojan varsity or singing "Fight On," because the women of Troy will be sitting up in the balconies listening for their masters voices...
With the continued scarcity of purchasers of student ticket books, it is apparent that something must be done at once if the famous Trojan rooting section is to maintain its high standard of excellence of former years...