Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distant Cousin...
...University Register for 1927-28 will definitely be put on sale Monday morning at both the Crimson Building and the Harvard Cooperative Society, it was announced last night. The first copies are arriving from the publisher today, and will promptly be mailed to Harvard Clubs and other subscribers in distant parts of the country...
...Panama, last week, a reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...
...Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles as the crow flies from Moscow, and 500 miles from the border of India. Thus ringed by remoteness, Lev Davidovich Trotsky will yet have the companionship of his wife and son, both voluntary sharers...
...Distant Drum. Marrying for money is generally regarded as reprehensible, while taking the money without the oath of office is even more severely criticized. Such criticism was finally leveled at the hero of this enterprise, in the form of a gun in the hand of an irate husband. Meanwhile he had been earning a large salary by agitating various affluent females. Finally he fell unexpectedly in love. The gun went off and shot him through his softened heart...