Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS "adventurous essay" by a young instructor at Williams College bears the subtitle: "Being a challenge to those who deny the possibility of a tragic spirit in the modern world," and is direct primarily at Joseph Wood Krutch and the New Humanists. It is divided into an historical survey of...
Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older...
With Depression, Yellowstone tourists have grown fewer, hotel scraps scarcer, bears hungrier. In Washington last week Director Horace Marden Albright announced that the National Park Service had been forced to kill 49 Yellowstone black bears, one grizzly during last summer and autumn.
The worst offenders among the Park's 550 black bears, 175 grizzlies were earmarked or had their feet painted so they would leave tracks when they broke into cabins or automobiles. For repeated offenses the penalty was death by bullet. Said Director Albright last week: "They didn't...
Playing indoors at the Chicago Stadium to settle the National Football League championship, the Chicago Bears beat the Portsmouth Spartans 9 to o.