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...engraved a few lines in his face and there was a heavier frost of whiteness in his hair. But there was more of a change than that-something the office had done to the man. He no longer looked like an anonymous face in the crowd. He stood erect as a West Pointer, radiated confidence, and looked amazingly trim for a man of 65. He had sampled authority, and liked it. He could reward friends, punish enemies. He had proved that he could whip his opponents even when some of his own supporters were dragging their feet. Not only...
Soon the shelter will be finished and they will lay back the sod, as if nothing had ever happened. But members of the House strolling through the main quadrangle may walk confident and erect, for they know that if war comes, Lowell House will be ready...
...rough frontier river town of St. Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...
Campaign headquarters for the fight was the tapestried salon of Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau, Ph.D. (Sociology, Bryn Mawr), onetime UNRRA welfare officer in Germany and president of the Ligue. Sitting erect on a brocaded chair, Madame Alice Garoute, 75, widow of a Supreme Court justice, sounded the battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
...Jubilee Committee candidates will put in their last efforts this noon and tonight before elections tomorrow. The Union Committee may erect a stage for the wind-up of the campaign...