Word: birches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25¢ admission to see it. From Wall Street somebody telephoned in to offer $3,000 for the picture to present to the Library of Congress. A man named Goldberg would...
Trudging home last week through a cool birch forest, peasants of the Polish town of Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...
Last week when the peasants heard the child screaming in the birch forest they paused in fright for a moment, then rushed bravely to the rescue. And they caught the vampire, a wild-eyed, tattered boy stabbing wildly at a little girl...
Today the team will face Dartmouth in its second match. The Green golfers will be hard to beat with Birch, Ogg, and Ryder playing the first three positions, but Coach Clark Hodder thinks Harvard will show some improvement over yesterday's showing. The only change in the lineup will be Francis S. North '36 in place of Mansfield Branigan...
Peterson's play is noteworthy because he was naturally under a nervous strain, competing against the 75 already chalked up by Chester Birch, captain of the Dartmouth team...