Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chat the delightful lady who had once given the Theatre Guild audiences a glimpse of the Shavian Cleopatra plunged immediately into a serious discussion of the modern theatre. Not believing that college is in any sense a training school for the theatre, Miss Hayes is nevertheless pleased to find so many undergraduates interested in the world of the masque and buskin...
...copy of 'Barclaii Argenis", with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
General Umberto Nobile, designer and navigator of the first airship to reach the North Pole, said recently to a CRIMSON reporter, "I find it hard to believe that Sir Hugh Frenchard could have made such a statement about aviation. It is true that he may have meant that flying at present is evil because it increases the taxation of European peoples. Or he may have had in mind the destructive potentialities of airplanes in war. But aviation an evil in itself, no, I cannot think that he meant that. The statement refutes itself. No flyer would ever say such...
...incidents. This self-plagiarism Mr. Buchan acknowledges in a note in the front, but it seems rather a pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making of the book. Besides this, there is one slip in the writing where we find the one-armed corporal throwing dice to pass the time, "right hand against left." But these faults do not materially affect a really fine story
...camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed...