Word: cecils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn defeated by the homebred Stevenson later in the day. Lone...
...first to link escapists and colonizers, Author Millin pounds out the link with an uncommonly honest and brilliant, if uneven, vigor; almost, as in her other eleven novels (God's Stepchildren, et al.), writes a first-rate book. Mainly she fails through too much haste. (Her biographies -Cecil Rhodes, General Smuts-took a whole year to write. Her novels get themselves written in a month...
...Woods McCahill '37, of Willoughby, O.; Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, of Flora, Ill.; Thomas L. Mikules '30, assistant in English, of Boston; Branford P. Millar '35, assistant in English, of Cambridge; Malcolm D. Perkins '36, of Milton; Joseph H. Phillips '35, of Dearborn, Mich.; Cecil F. Rowe, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Stephen H. Stackpole '33, of Cambridge, secretary to the President; Oscar Sutermeister '32, of Kansas City, Mc.; Norris P. Swett '37, of Bloomfield, Ct.; and Sturgis Warner '37, of Ipswich...
...world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late...
Honorable mention in the Undergraduate awards was given for essays by Hume Dow '38, of St. George, New York, on "The Poetry of Cecil Day Lewis"; by Courtney C. D. Smith '38, of Iowa City, Iowa, on "Tears of Eternity"; and by Donald R. Griffin '38, of Barnstable, on "Phantom Shapes that Hamt the Dusk...