Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winthrop Weatherbee Jr. '26 of Boston was elected treasurer; Charles Allen Smart '26, of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected secretary, Samuel Whiting '26 of Hingham was made business manager, and Richard Linn Edsall of Millwood, Va., was elected Pegasus. The following were added to the literary board: J. D. Keogh '25, Hugh Whitney '25, S. F. Ayers '26, and H. N. Doughty '26. Mr. S. Foster Damon '14 was elected an honorary member of the literary board in recognition of his services to the Advocate during...
...bill to convert the military reservation at Camp Benning, Ga., into a national forest. (Went to the House...
...Dreaming forest, flowery bush, red cliff, turquoise sea; that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads...
Wall Street professionals are learning the difficulty of being unable to see the forest for the trees. Hard-bitten by many years of experience in stock speculation, they believe that what goes up must come down, and have therefore been led to sell short many of the leading speculative stocks. But the market keeps on upward, steadily and remorselessly. The paradoxical result has been that many an amateur speculator west of the Alleghanies has, by continuing to buy stocks, serenely drubbed the professionals of the financial arena...
They were not Tilden and Johnston. They were not Borotra and Brugnon. They were much younger than that- slim high school lads in their teens. But to them the match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued...