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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ANGEL-Du Bose Heyward- Doran ($2). Liquor, religion and love all come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...considerable distance loses consciousness before he reaches the ground. This theory, it is true, had never been verified, since persons so falling have always lost consciousness upon impact with the ground or street, never to regain it. Last week, two army aviators-Sergeant Randall L. Bose, Corporal Arthur Bergo-set themselves to disprove the belief. At Mitchel Field, L. I., they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Plunge | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Lenhart '27 defeated F. G. Boggs 15-4, 17-15, 15-8; L. S. Haskins '26 beat C. F. Eaton 15-9, 17-15, 14-18, 15-10; J. H. Finley Jr. '25 defeated R. M. Blackall 15-9, 15-8, 15-10; H. P. Briggs defeated A. P. Bose '25, 15-10, 15-6, 3-15, 12-15, 15-9; P. R. Pease '26 defeated E. W. Soucy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TITLE IN SIGHT AS SQUASH TEAM WINS | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Essenes in Tennessee. Men long past school age who desire to fit themselves for Holy Orders, are applying for admission into the Du Bose Memorial School in the Tennessee mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trends Sep. 3, 1923 | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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