Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Former Sen. Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire, burly, red-faced New Dealer and fee of public utilities, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be Comptroller General, one of the most powerful positions in the government service...
Harwood used as his passage "After Munich", from Neville Chamberlain's September speech, while Blackwell delivered excerpts from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body." "Patterns of Survival" by John H. Bradley was Whittier's passage and Thomas a Becket's Christmas Sermon as rendered by T. S. Eliot '10 in his "Murder in the Cathedral" was chosen by Bernard Rivin...
...roundish, solid man in immaculate dark clothes, with fine tight features and bright brown eyes, George Grosz has more to say of his precise technical discipline than of his feelings. But last week he confessed to a fascination with horror tales and movies, tapped his round head solemnly as he declared: "Every survivor is a haunted house...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...
King-George VI will receive an honorary LL.D. from Brown University when he and Queen Elizabeth visit Providence on the trip to America this June, the Brown "Herald" announced with modest reticence recently. President Wriston said that the gesture would help to "cement Angle-American relations...