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...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...
...with all the blackness and suddenness of a tropical storm. In June there was one climate of opinion and by September there was another; and with each succeeding month the atmosphere became more electric, the storms more frequent and more violent. Members of the Harvard faculty who had been bosom friends became vituperative enemies. In February 1914 a certain professor referred to the absurdities of the latent hostility to Germany during the Spanish War of 108 and mentioned the strong ties binding the scholars of the United States to the land ruled by the Kaiser. Before the year passed...
Awarded. To Caroline Pafford Miller, 33, 1934 Pulitzer Prize novelist (Lamb in His Bosom); a final decree of divorce from William D. Miller, her high-school English teacher whom she married at 17; in Waycross, Ga. Grounds: "He became nagging, unbearable and . . . insanely jealous." Retorted Teacher Miller: "[She] got pleasure-mad after writing the book...
Jeffery John Archer, Earl Amherst was a soldier of the King during the World War, won himself the Military Cross. Later he became a dramatic critic on Manhattan's famed morning World, an intimate of all the Tonys on West 52nd Street and a bosom companion of Noel Coward. Last week the Earl of Amherst, 40, stood in a London tailor's shop wrapped in the mantle of crimson velvet and banded ermine in which he must make obeisance to his King...
...legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could be watched. Without voice or closeups the players had to resort to violent pantomime, grimacing, brow puckering, and the frightened clutch at throat or bosom...