Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David S. Stacey '40, has developed a new device for determining the intensity of light cast by a photographic enlarger. A versatile instrument, it will measure light intensities varying from those as powerful as the sun's rays to the lowest ever experienced in photographic work...
Battle Lines. In that room was visible evidence of the broken lines of the two political parties. Wisconsin's Progressive Bob La Follette Jr. found himself shoulder to shoulder with conservatives who ordinarily have no truck with him; hulking David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who wants a big two-ocean U. S. Navy, found himself working smoothly with Missouri's rosy-nosed Bennett Champ Clark, who has consistently voted against every large Naval appropriation increase since he entered Congress...
...full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When he is 18, his embittered grandfather dies, leaving him $500 and some advice: "Don't look for happiness, there isn't any such thing. Above...
...earnest seeker of truth, which he thinks he has found in science, David pulls out for London to live on his grand-patrimony while he studies biology. Strapped before his third year is out, David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk...
...Before David is tossed skallyhooting out of his paradise and his ephemeral inheritance, some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show...