Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eaton was a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1923, although he caused more real anxiety among Michigan's faculty than any man who ever lived in Ann Arbor. He used to work on the Michigan Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow...
...series of accidents arising out of circumstances which he had publicly warned them to avoid. He therefore went scot free. When a series of near-accidents begin to happen to them, Mrs. Clive and O'Ryan are certain that her husband has planned their murders The arbor collapses, a pit is mysteriously dug in the garden, the stair rail falls. Actor Conroy's sinister joviality through all this excites a great deal of amused tittering from his audiences, goes far to compensate for but does not prevent the lameness of the farce's conclusion. The hand that...
Died. Very Rev. John Patrick McNichols, S. J., 57, president of the University of Detroit; of pleurisy; in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Died. General Jose Francisco Uriburu, 64, onetime (1930-32) Provisional President of the Argentine Republic; of an operation for stomach ulcers; in Paris. Nephew and great-grandson of Argentine heroes, he was a retired lieutenant-general in 1930, emerged at the head of the cadets who seized the abandoned government from President Hypolito Irigoyen. In 18 months of one-man government, President Uriburu turned Argentina's adverse trade balance into a favorable balance...
...approached, the men under the steel cars became attentive. Attentive also to what was going to happen at the quarries were scientists tending earthquake recorders at Madison, Wis., Ann Arbor, East Lansing, St. Louis, Buffalo, New York City, Washington. Chronometers of everyone interested were set to check with a radioed time signal from the Naval Observatory at Washington...
Yehudi Menuhin is 15. His name is great. Already this season his recitals in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Toronto, have shown that, 'unlike many violin prodigies, his genius advances. This week he faced a supreme test-the Brahms Concerto with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. The Brahms is not showy music designed to demonstrate a fiddler's virtuosity.f Everyone knows now that Yehudi can play trills and double-stops with an assurance worthy of a Kreisler or a Heifetz. Brahms wrote music for grownups, music that is deeply contemplative and tender, faintly austere. People made frantic efforts...