Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elliott has been appointed assistant professor in government. Dr. Elliott was Dean of Men at the University of California...
...Elliott is lecturing at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on Roman politics and law. It is in Government 2b, and whoever has heard Dr. Elliott will understand my intention of visiting the lecture, even though they may think little of the subject. At the next hour, I am going to Sever 17 to hear Professor Elton lecture in his course on criticism. His subject this afternoon will be Aristotle's Poetics...
Here is her trouble when Brand and Emma reach her in response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he has lost Jackie in the trackless, beast-run hunting veld, lost him completely. There is a nightmare of searching. Mary's baby is born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief...
...honestly, wanting him even that way. They had grown together, honest friends, not exalted but not unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...
...last pretences had been to make Elliott go hunting on the veld every year, as bigger men did. She could then send game to impress her friends. Even with the baby coming she had insisted he leave her to hunt. Elliott's usual hunting partner failing, she let little Jackie...