Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harmon Foundation & the race-relations committee of the Federal Council of Churches, opened in Manhattan. First prize?$400?in the Harmon Competition had been awarded to Laura Wheeler Waring, who showed, among her seven prize-winning paintings, two splendid portraits of Negro women; the one of a slick brown jane, the other of an old Negress whose face was ugly...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
Colonel W. S. Brown of the United States Army will be one of the speakers at the dinner. It is understood that the Association, realizing the growing importance of government support in college polo, will ask him to point out value of the game as an undergraduate sport when played under the auspices...
...Wolcott was a prominent member of his class during his undergraduate days in his Senior year he rowed on the University crew in the Yale race. After his graduation he entered the Boston office of Brown Brothers and Company, and remained with that firm, as agent and atorney, until 1919, when he became vice-president of the State Street Trust Company, which office he still holds...
...summary of the University game follows: HARVARD TRINITY Slocum, Baldwin, r.f. l.g., Hallstrom Wenner, O'Connell, Ward, l.f. r.g., Whitaker Green, McCurdy, Filoon, c. c., Mastronarde, Ebersald Barbee, Harper, J. Stone, l.g. l.f., Burr, Brown Hatch, Burns, Harper, W., r.g. r.f., Tante...