Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart and the triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me?that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended then as he is now by Biographer Browne, who, with the able research assistance of Elsa Weihl, has written a book, more arrowy in its understanding than his famed This Believing World...
...bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew boy was a raspberry. Elsa giggled a little...
...Carews are a mad tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where...
...visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration, will secure for traveling families of U. S. babbitts an entrée of sorts in Paris. Whether Miss...
...were two young Negroes, second-year men at Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.), one of the oldest institutions of higher learning for Negroes in the South. They were walking slowly to their rooms from the final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good...