Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfamiliar pictures neatly quarter President Washington's life 1) a miniature attributed to John Singleton Copley executed when Washington was 25; 2) a Peale showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...
...first rape. Fourteen thousand Army & Navy men on the island boiled with .rage. Fortnight ago a Japanese, Horace Ida, was seized by three carloads of sailors from the Pearl Harbor base, whisked across the island to the Pali precipice. After threats to throw him over the 1,207-ft. cliff, Ida was stripped, beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts, kicked and cuffed, left half-dead...
After he had driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like...
Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...
Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club will climb some of the cliffs in the Quincy granite quarries tomorrow afternoon, in order to give the new members some experience in cliff-sealing. The officers of the club are at present A. F. Megrew '32, president, D. W. Brown, Jr. '34, H. B. Washburn...