Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music of a concertina across broad sunny fields. At home the routine is monotonously wretched. His thieving older brother and dull sister, the mother's favorites, get the melon...
Vanderveer was the son of S. L. Vanderveer of Great Neck, L. I. He prepared for Harvard at Mercersburg Academy and Stony Brook School and entered College with the class of 1935. In the fall of 1931 he rowed with the inexperienced Freshman crew. His previous athletic participation included swimming at Mercersburg Academy and football at Stony Brook School. He made his Freshmen crew rowing number six, and was elected captain. He met his death in an automobile accident last summer...
...Terrall E. E. Tilden, T. C. Van Nuys, E. L. Viets. Craig Wallace. N. D. Warwick. A. G. Webster, A. R. Wecd. G. S. Weisman. C. M. Weld. F. A. West brook, Delane Wigbht, G. P. Winship
...year aged-in-the-wood whiskey which National Distillers has declared for holders of record Sept. 15. 1934.* More important to Owens-Illinois is the prospect that in case of Repeal it will make the bottles in which Old Grandad, Old Taylor, Green River, Mount Vernon, Sunny Brook, McBroyer and other National Distillers' Products brands will be distributed...
...Chicagoans the game of polo has a cc.chet, a glamor that it lacks in Texas where cowboys play it wearing chaps, or in Hollywood where actors have their handicaps published in Variety, or at Meadow Brook where it is taken completely for granted. Two summers ago, Chicago had a taste of high-grade polo when an Argentine team stopped off to play. This year Chicago will have more than a taste. In honor of the World's Fair, the Open Championship will probably be played there with players from England and possibly a 25-goal team of Indians...