Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work on a stone "riprap" to check crosion of the Charles River bank near the Weeks' Bridge, has been discontinued until spring. Soft ground has forced the cessation of this work, which was started in September. With the completion of the barrier, engineers hope to half erosion, whose steady gains of several feet yearly were threatening to undermine the foundations of the Business School...
...mounds of dirt now piled up in rows along the river bank will continue to mar the landscape until spring. This earth, taken from excavations in Arlington, will be spread along the bank to foster the growth of grass. The growing of grass and the building of a stone barrier are the twin measures being used by workers of the Maintenance Division of the Metropolitan District Commission to check crosion, beautify the river bank, and preserve the Business School...
...like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official are suspended by the Dutch merrymen in the bucket of one of their own steamshovels; arid three youthful bank robbers play hide-&-seek with...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...
...Aldrich, Chase National Bank...