Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As "The Women" deals with the fair sex in the cynical thirties, so "The Old Maid" takes its problem back into Civil War Days and the mauve decade. It is characteristic of the two periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of...
The Hopeless: Senators Clyde Reed of Kansas, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, Warren Barbour of New Jersey, Chan Gurney of South Dakota, Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, Wallace White and Frederick Hale of Maine, Ernest Gibson and Warren Austin of Vermont, Rufus Holman of Oregon, John Townsend of Delaware, James Davis...
Twenty-two years ago Smith College chose a Scot to be its president. It never regretted its choice. It liked witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's...
Like Dr. Neilson, Mr. Davis is an authority on English literature. Dr. Neilson's specialty is Shakespeare, Mr. Davis' Jonathan Swift. Mr. Davis was graduated from Oxford, was an artilleryman in World War I, taught at the University of Leeds and Cologne and for 16 years at University...
Mr. Davis will come to Smith as soon as Cornell lets him go; meanwhile Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow* will continue as Smith's acting president. To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had...