Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: No "pink-faced graduate of Amherst College" (TIME, June 22), Quebec's new Premier J. Adelard Godbout is a B.Sc. of École d'Agriculture de Ste. Anne in Quebec and a former graduate student (1919-22) at Massachusetts State College. Ours is, according to their historians, the daughter of Amherst College and we, as New Englanders, may well be proud of that, but the two schools are separated by the length of the village of Amherst and a number of other differences...
...fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington, Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter in 1,000 exasperated words...
...rest, rushed back to Holinge pursued by debts and scandals. Talented, bitter, hysterical, she stayed in her room, tormented herself and the family, thought of suicide. The Snyders did not own Holinge, which complicated Bengt's problem. Its owner was a distant relative, an eccentric named Charles-Henri de Grévy, who had fled Sweden 20 years before as a result of shady stock manipulation. So the first shock to ambitious Bengt's resolution came when he learned that his mother had been unlawfully selling old de Grévy's possessions, that his other heirs...
...ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt, compromising his convictions in his dire need, found himself trapped in another labyrinth of intrigue...
...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...