Word: brien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...
...Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...Swaifield of Fairfield, Conn J. N. Young of North Adams, R. Dillon of Hartford, Conn O. Tower of Andover, W. F. Coady of Boston, L. E. Ball of Amherst, J. P. Haughy of Pawtucket, R. I. J. LeCain of Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton, H. I. O'Brien of Rutland, Vt. C. M. Amfott of Fitchburg, W. Brennan of New York, E. L. Couture of Windsor, Vt. C. H. Edwards of Waterville, Mc. G. Hayes of Hartford, Conn P. C. Rogers of Exeter, N. H. and J. P. Whalen of Holyoke Mass...
CHARLES J. O'BRIEN...
...purpose of the book, and throughout its pages are scattered exhortations to the reader to disagree if he likes but to do some sort of thinking anyway. But there is little to disagree with in the criticism of the American short story with which the book ends. Mr. O'Brien is on familiar ground here and he succeeds in making a pretty concise exposition of what is wrong with those tales which so innocuously while away so many Thursday nights