Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owner's wife and child; Ch'en's attempted murder; the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years...
...Wilson, daughter of a hard driving, onetime Tennessee storekeeper who made a fortune during the Civil War, married off his daughters to socialites. The total value of Mrs. Vanderbilt's was not revealed. She divided a $7,000,000 trust fund between her daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from the sale of the old Vanderbilt chateau...
East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...game will be played tomorrow afternoon with the strong Boston Lacrosse Club seconds. HARVARD M.I.T. Fernald, g. g. Thomson Rowe, cp. cp., Rutherford Glodt, cp. p., Athusdjian Witherspoon, 1d. 1d., Savel Pepper, 2d., 2d., Smedly Thompson, e. e., Fritk Rubinow, 2a. 2a., Gleason Carter, 1a. 1a., de Raiemes Levey, ch. ch., Gidley Bounakes, ih. ih., Levy...
...best prep school lacrosse teams in the country for the past few years, is expected to give the J.V.'s plenty of opposition. The Harvard lineup will be: Webber, g; Allan, p; Freeman, cp; Rosenberg, 1d; Clos, 2d; Warwick, c; Howard, 2a; Forbush, la; Maddux, ch; Fields...