Word: conrades
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...that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official...
MANY tales have been written from the first wanderings of Aeneas to the romantic adventures of the Sea Devil of the World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole...
...TWOULD be like pointing a brutal, misunderstanding finger at a youth in his first long trousers to criticise this small book of poems from a Conrad Aikenian standard. Gently they must be handled, delicately discerned to have appreciated the sensitive, self-conscious moods, the awkward, almost blushing moments...
Langdell--Eagen, Conrad v. Root--Hunziker, Rice...
...police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability, those who like to shiver at make-believe gunmen will be able to do so. Conrad Nagel, playing the hero, wears without embarrassment the name of "Handsome...