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...studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
...representatives Osborne, is from Adams house and Beacon Hill Tibbetts of Lowell House and Winchendon, Perkins from Adams and South Dartmouth, and Boggs of Lowell and Groves, Missouri. The '46 men include Fry of Lowell and New York City, Dunn of Dunster and New York and Regan of Dudley and West Roxbury...
...Browder post-1941): A shining beacon for all oppressed peoples...
...Tuesday afternoon, June 29, the Navy Communications Wives Club enjoyed a tour of several old Boston homes on Beacon Hill. The first place they visited was the lovely home of Mrs. Robert Cushman on Mt. Vernon Street. Mrs. Cushman then accompanied the group around Louisburg Square and on to the Women's City Club of Boston homes...
...screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...