Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...
Author Howe is at his best, however, in recapturing the charm and wit which held the Saturday Club and Boston dinner tables spellbound, prompting Charles Kingsley to stammer on his U. S. visit: "He is an insp-sp-sp-ired...
Most of the official party, with members of the Harvard Club of Boston, will leave here on a special car on Wednesday noon for Chicago. New Yorkers will join the group in Albany, and other alumni will join the train en route to Chicago...
That evening the annual dinner will be held with addresses by President Conant, Nathan Pereless, Jr., President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Archbald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection. Presiding will be Frans Blom, President of the Harvard Club of Louisiana...
Outclassed by well-conditioned Southern nines, the varsity baseball club on their annual spring trip dropped successive games to North Carolina, duke, and Navy to show only one win, that over the Naval Training Station...