Word: albions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NIGHT IN THE HOTEL-Eliot Crawshay-Williams-Liveright ($2).* The Hotel des Anges et d'Albion, its arresting title notwithstanding, was a second-rate hotel overlooking a second-rate Riviera town. Its 22 guests were a fair cross-section of upper-middle-class England (except for three who were French). When you first see them gathered in the dining room for their skimpy déjeuner they look a pretty average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease...
...Night Thoughts, both colored and uncolored. These have been reproduced by the Harvard University Press and a bound copy of the two prints and other reproductions is on exhibition. The Lowell Collection also includes a bound manuscript containing the Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion...
Such was the "Song of the Johnsons. . . . Indited in honor of the Return of La Bien-Aimée Johnson to the Shores of Albion" fortnight ago by the London Graphic...
...Albion (Mich.) College students, good Methodists, gleefully watched their basketball team beat their longtime Presbyterian rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed...