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...young composer, Lewis Dodd, lean and sharp as a falcon, is on hand when Florence Churchill, efficient dilettante, comes to drag her cousins off to school in England. Anticipating an interesting seduction, Dodd soon finds himself a successful, well-kept celebrity in England, married to Florence. Not till then does he wake up to Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring...
...shall determine. Harvard Clubs That Are Members to Agreement A. D. Club Owl Club Alpha Tau Sigma Club Phi Kappa Epsilon Club Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity Phoenix Club Argo Club Pi Eta Society Delphic Club Porcellian Club Digamma Club S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club S. K. Club Falcon Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Stylus Club Iroquois Club Styx Club K. G. X. Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Trident Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
...Army beat the Navy in the Liberty Engine Builders' trophy race, Lieut. Orville L. Stephens coming home first in a Curtiss Falcon observation plane after averaging 142.6 m.p.h. for a dozen laps of a 12-mile course. Later the Navy, in the person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy, roared back, to win from the Army the Kansas City Rotary Club trophy, over a 120-mi. closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell...
...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...