Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures. First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before her marriage was Actress Eleanor Robson. For her George Bernard Shaw wrote his ablest social service play, Major Barbara. Of late years Mrs. Belmont has been giving most of her energies to fund-raising for the relief of New York's jobless. For honorary vice presidents...
...honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate it on the centenary of his birth last August. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, commissioned to make the statue, completed in his Texas studio a clay model of the orator, in frock coat with arms akimbo. When cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve...
...Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long lost crown? "We," he said...
...DIGWEED AND MR. LUMB-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2). The disappearance of one of them brings two old misogynists to the eyes of England's rural constabulary. The garrulity of the survivor helps police solve a murder carefully planned for three years. MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY -August W. Derleth-Loring & Mussey ($2). The small town's mean man was stabbed just before "Judge" Peck arrived. His son, his sister, his half-brother change from suspects to victims. The "Judge's" delving into the past unearths both the cause and manner of the killing. EPILOGUE-Bruce Graeme-Lippincott...
Last year's men now out for practice are captain Serbert E. Danenport '34, John F. Ray '34, Freeman F. Jones '34, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Sumner Rodman '34 and Marvin P. Richmond '34. The Sophomore men who have reported are Justine J. Thachara '36, August C. Helmholz '36, Richard W. Gilder '36, Gordon F. Robertson '36, James A. Roberts '36, and Germain G. Glidden...