Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare's counsel, Francis Shunk Brown, announced flatly that Mr. Vare would not and could not appear before the Reed committee on Jan. 4. Three physicians of Mr. Vare backed this statement, saying that a trip to Washington would "work great hardship upon a nervous system that has been badly damaged, and possibly might even jeopardize his [Vare's] life...
...anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity...
Married. The Countess of Northesk, onetime Jessica Brown of the Ziegfeld Follies, who recently divorced David, 11th Earl of Northesk; and Vivian Cornelius of the British diplomatic corps, of Windlesham, Surrey; in London. Said the clergyman: "Vivian . . . you're marrying an exquisite woman. . . . I love you both. . . . Jessica . . . you've married Vivian, a great man, a true Sahib...
...touch football game scheduled for yesterday afternoon between Delta Upsilon, college champion of Brown University and Sigma Alpha Mu Harvard champions, has been postponed indefinitely. According to A. W. Samborski 1G, director of intramural athletics, several members of both teams were unable to play because of leaving early for home...
...Parker Jr., who, with a short story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your notions of story writing include the theme of the college bounder whose incredible extravagance leads him to the purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which...