Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slums, give the doings of the tinhorn hoodlums a convincing look of reality. Best atmospheric touches: Peter's grubby home; the grey, frayed hopelessness of his hard-working parents (admirably played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with...
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from...
...destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...
Clarence R. Randall '12 of Winnetka, Illinois was elected President of the Alumni Association at a meeting held Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston. He will take office for one year immediately after Commencement on June twenty-third...
...mark of 35 minutes, 20 seconds. The handicapping system, which allowed five minutes for touring bikes and ten minutes extra for balloon-tire entries, give first place to tourer Anderson. E. George cloutier '51 was awarded third place after a meeting of the best mathematical minds of the Outing Club, which sponsored the race...