Word: brooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BROOK EVANS-Susan Glaspell-Stokes...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...
...into a roll at 3,000 feet. The wings crumpled and the fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were...
Announcement was made last nigh of the Senior who are acting as sponsors for the annual Phillips Brook House Spread which will take place the afternoon of Class Day, June 19, in the quadrangle in the rear of Sought to Hall. The list of names includes A.H. O'Nell '28, W.G. Saltonstall '28, L.M. McTurnan '28, W.N. Bump '28, E.G. Dennis '28, and J.G. Buckley '28. About 400 people will gather in the quadrangle upon the conclusion of the exercises in the Stadium, and the Spread will continue untill 7.30 o'clock. The Phillips Brooks House will proved a convenient...
...summer White House inspector, had returned to Washington at last with a description that sounded like the land at the end of a rainbow: high altitude, cool nights, few flies, commodious quarters, beautiful trees, abundant game, and trout-500,000 of them, stocked, bred, liver-fed for 30 years -brook trout, lake trout, steelhead trout -yes, even rainbow trout. President Coolidge announced his decision abruptly; said he would hold the Budget meeting early, on June 11 and leave immediately afterwards for Brule, Wis., for Cedar Island Lodge and cool woods, seclusion, trout. Summer White House Inspector Starling sped back...