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Then she goes back to her old home in Beldingsville, Vt., lives with her Aunt Polly. Here it was that she had arrived some years before (in Pollyanna), a forlorn little orphan determined to play the "glad game." This was the same little corner she had brightened before, and naturally it falls on its neck to make her welcome, it has not forgotten the wistful little minister's daughter who even found something to be "glad" about when a pair of crutches was all that came for her in the missionary barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pollyanna Comes Back | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

There is a certain amount of speculation rife, however, as to what will take John Harvard's place in the ravished and forlorn Delta. Harvard has no familiar animal, such as might readily be suggested at other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MAN OF IRON | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Encouraged by telling victories over Dartmouth and St. Francis in its last two starts, the Crimson five faces Yale at New Haven tonight, not the forlorn hope that it looked to be two weeks ago, but a fighting team with more than a fighting chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTING CRIMSON TEAM MEETS YALE | 3/11/1924 | See Source »

...their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy theatrical promoter is casually killed. It looks like a blow to South Africa. But a stranger, a queer, forlorn barroom porter who has befriended the girl, shoulders the guilt so they can still use the steamer tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 11, 1924 | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Marooned in the center of the field a group of photographers made a forlorn effort to take motion pictures of the cheer leaders as they slip and slide up and down the side lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE 13, HARVARD 0 | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

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