Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected the following officers last night: President, Robert W. Snyder '38; Vice-President, Eric T. Clarke '38; Secretary, Seymour Bunshaft '39; Treasurer, Mc Crae H. Cobb '39. Chester W. Williams 1G was appointed assistant conductor. The following new members were elected: Roy J. Beneechi '37, Mc Crae H. Cobb...
Most of the novels about the World War, from Andreas Latzko's Men in Battle (1930) to Humphrey Cobb's Paths of Glory (1935), have been in terms of frontline fighting. To such outstanding exceptions as John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border...
...Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights...
...Beach (right) enjoyed Rollins hazing RUPERT HUGHES has become a master of monies in radio. Irwin S. Cobb is about to come one after a taste of starting in motion picture but Rex Beach, once an American titan of mass state telling like Hughes and Cobb, grows old on a ranch in Florida. When Rex Beach entered Rollins College in 1801, he signed himself Rex Ellen's tough rabble on the Yukon during the gold rush he had left Kent College of Law in Chicago to the Beach was a Rollins Kappa Alpha and had lead something about roughing...
...knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell to learn something else or give up pitching. Hubbell's control kept him from arguing. Back in the minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game...