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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire program has not been announced; however among Professor Copeland's readings will be "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR COPELAND TO READ AT UNION TONIGHT | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Among Professor Copeland's readings will be: "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPELAND SELECTS WORKS FOR CHRISTMAS READING | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin's; that they would have no happy endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, has announced the subjects for his annual Christmas reading. He will read "Desire," a new sketch by James Stephens, author of the celebrated "Crock of Gold," and selections from Browning, Benchrey and Leacock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Desire" Subject of Copeland Reading | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

...title to his newest book of essays, Mr. McCord goes to the old philosopher of "The Crock of Gold," and chooses as a motto on his title page that worthy's recurrent pliant, "there are lumps in it." The lumps in this literary Stirabout are various and many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Selected List of Important Fall Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

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