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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliot House will hold its annual dinner in honor of President Eliot on Sunday, March 21, at 7 o'clock. The dinner is customarily held on March 20, which is Eliot's birthday, but as the date falls on a Saturday this year the dinner has been planned for the next day. Last year due to a University celebration on his birthday the dinner was given on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

When Somerset Maugham wrote his first novels in the late 1890s they were regarded as daringly modern. These books would seem primly old-fashioned now. Still up-to-date, still a jump ahead of his popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Actress | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...atmosphere, but once under way most of them will be carried along by the momentum of the year's most naturalistic novel. After a hasty checkup, statisticians last week agreed that Author Levin had succeeded in printing twice as many four-letter unprintables as his nearest competitor to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews in Chicago | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...years afterwards the Fall River Globe kept the bloody memory of Aug. 4 alive, every year on that date ran a thinly veiled attack on Lizzie Borden. Fall River citizens shunned her on the street. She changed her name to Lizbeth, but refused to move away. Did Sister Emma suspect her? No one knows. They lived together for eleven years, then Emma left her, never saw Lizzie again. When they died, in the same year (1927), they were buried in the Fall River cemetery alongside the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forty Whacks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Supreme Court the President decidedly does not say that it may not be altered. In this most explicit statement to date of his political as well as constitutional views Harvard's chieftain states that "Personally I should wish to live under the present Constitution as written, but as interpreted by the minority of the present court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Enters National Arena to Blast Court Changes Without Popular Order | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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