Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...
WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK-H. T. Webster, George Ade, G. F. Worts, Marc Connelly, R. F. Foster-Simon, Schuster ($2.50). Cartoonist Webster long ago laid hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes...
...renaissance of the travelling theatre has come, come with the assistance of the automobile, and the foster parents of the travelling theatre the Jitney Players, enter upon their third season. The organization is peculiarly interesting to Harvard men because the originator. Bushnell Cheney, Yale '21, last summer enlisted the aid of a number of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. This summer the Jitney Players again number among their company several graduates of the University...
...will allow brothers and sisters to be auctioned off to the highest bidder ..." (The Secretary's metaphoric reference was to institutions for orphans which can care for applicants only according to the extent of their facilities, the size of their endowments, and to adoptions by well-to-do foster parents arranged by bureaus...
...place in the Yard as a man in the lingerie department of Shepherd's. Today, she is still as much out of place here, but she is no longer rare. At the mere thought of rearing a family of daughters--even as a sort of distant foster-father--John Harvard would drop his book from his knees and lose his place forever. But what to do? It is unfortunate that students from Radcliffe are compelled to use Widener Library. It is a mistake to admit women students to Harvard courses. Radcliffe has its facilities and should make adequate provision...