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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Homans '94, a member of the Harvard Corporation, one of Boston's most eminent barristers, and a director in many large business enterprises here in the East, passed away yesterday in his home at 33 Chestnut Street, Beacon Hill, at the age of 61 years...
...Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved...
...East St. Louis, Ill. Harry Radel was watching a motion picture when a stranger rose up near him, struck him on the head with a club. Said the stranger to the police: "That fellow looked like Hoover...
Another item of no small inconvenience is the position of the ground entrance into Widener. Why must that polite old gentleman who examines your books be stationed at the east door of the library? Why can't his person and function be transferred to the Massachusetts Avenue entrance, which is the most convenient for all members of the Houses, especially those who intend to use the elevator which is only fifty feet from that entrance...
When the Japanese proclaim that they are assuming the responsibility of maintaining peace in the Far East, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that they mean not merely peace with honor, but also peace with profit. They are taking up the well-known and slightly nauseating White Man's Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...