Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent Treasurer of the Class of 1929, Alan Richardson Sweezy of Englewood, New Jersey, prepared at Exeter. He is at present president of the Harvard CRIMSON, secretary of the Student Council, and has been chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. Robeson Bailey of Philadelphia, who is the newly elected Poet, prepared at Hill and is president of the Advocate. He played on his Freshman basketball and tennis teams...
...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...
...debaters: from Oxford University, Alan T. Lennox-Boyd, C. S. Malcolm Brereton, Dingle M. Foot; from Columbia, Lawrence A. Tassi, William T. Matthews, Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
Sons Herbert Hoover Jr. and Alan Hoover have traveled on their father's campaign trains but made no speeches...
...Mating Call. Thomas Meighan comes home from the War to a Southern village to find that Evelyn Brent, whom he left at the station the day they were married, has had the marriage annulled and tied herself to Alan Roscoe. She still likes Meighan and hangs around his farm so much that the Ku Klux Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis...