Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autumn of 1865, five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook...
...lights dimmed. Suddenly Queen Alexandrine screamed as a heavy bundle of papers hurtled from the balcony into her lap. Other leaflets fluttered like autumn leaves through the house. From the gallery a voice boomed: "Long live Finland! Down with Relander, the bloodhound of Helsingfors...
...EARLY AUTUMN-Louis Bromfield - Stokes ($2). Ancestor-worship in New England, where "thoughts grow higher and fewer...
...example, in the bit about the dream of two doves, who "uttered again and again the sighs customary to doves, as if talking together." As the final bit of Barrett Wendell's abundant writing, acomplished at Portsmouth and in the Boston Athenaeum during the last summer and autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed it, a month or two before his death, to his friend Mr. Bolton, librarian...
Like many others, eight men over 60, and one younger, have worked, played, thought this summer. Last week they met again at Washington for the first autumn sitting of the U. S. Supreme Court. Eight justices received scant press notice, but Chief Jus, tice William Howard Taft was, as usual, quizzed. Said a reporter: "How is Prohibition working out in Canada?" Answered the Chief Justice: "My dear boy, I have been out of politics a good many years, but I still know enough about politics to know what not to talk about...