Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAMSON (Henry) Dream of Fair Women. Mint...
GALSWORTHY (John) The Little Dream. Only 500 copies printed...
...predict the outcome. Such is the unknown author of "Before the Curtain Falls." The book which he has produced is a combination of historical retrospection, such as "Only Yesterday," and modern novel as written by, perhaps, Sinclair Lewis. It is a novel about the generation which did not dream that a deluge would ever come, about the feverish madness of the war, the medieval cruelties and ignorance of the twenties, and it hints of an awakening...
...almost recreated Harvard. He tightened up its loose system of elective courses, provided new language tests; instituted a tutorial system, general examinations, reading periods. By persuading Edward Stephen Harkness to give $13,000,000 when (some say) he only planned giving $2,000,000. Dr. Lowell accomplished a dream of 20 years-the "House Plan," adopted also by Yale, that is supposed to revolutionize the college's social life. With Judge Robert Grant and the late Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton. Dr. Lowell reviewed the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case for Governor Fuller, was firmly indifferent to the blackguarding...
...homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into...