Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college days Thornton first perceives these undermining forces at work; sees his classmates abandoning their first high, nebulous hopes of achievement, for some concrete form of business which will assure them wealth. And shortly after college, he is himself drawn into the menacing vortex, by a tragically mistaken marriage...
WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...
Harvard will be considerably handicapped in the four-mile race where it has drawn a back seat in tenth place. But in Chapin, Tibbetts, Cutcheon, and Watters, Coach Farrell has four milers who are capable of a 4.30 mile and less which may prove sufficient to beat the crack B. C. milers to the tape...
Because of a defective bolt in the propellor, the new boat, which has been christened the "Pip", has been drawn up on the float during the past few days, but it will probably be put in the water today...
...bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened mansion at dead of night, he had found, not Irene the good, but Lily the beautiful. At dawn, Lily returned to Paris, leaving only a note to her one night's lover...