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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...
...spite of a ten-minute overtime period, the University soccer team was unable to defeat the Brown eleven, and was forced to content itself with a 2 to 2 tie yesterday afternoon on the Business School field...
...making what promises to be a successful appeal for her former prestige. "The Old Lady in Brown" has bobbed her hair, enlisted the services of a typographical Patou in beautifying her person and has appeared in a brand new and handsome format. In addition to this the editorial content of the issue evidences a vitality and sanity which will make "The Hoot" look to its bays and laurels. The New York Herald-Tribune
...revolt. All things good are bad; and things bad are not bad enough. Institutions are corrupt, men are stupid, football is overemphasized, life is a long rope with a noose at the end. This is perhaps a sound enough criticism of modern life, but unfortunately we are not content to belittle ourselves, we must go back and belittle our fathers. Washington was a cursing drunkard, Hamilton gadded about with far too many women, Jefferson was a pompous hypocrite. This is a bad business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth in the old days...
...Dashiell Hammett, seem to have been not so much started by his example as let loose by it. Both have a manner that owes its start, perhaps, to Hemingway; but both have branched off into a patented, individual style of storytelling. No pioneers of language, they have been content to follow their leader into new country and then settle there...