Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Peabody Gardner '77, Trustee of the University and active in Alumni affairs died yesterday at his summer home in Monument Beach, Bourne in his eighty-third year...
...Edward A. G. Luxton, of Montreal, Canada; Marshall Melin, of Chicago, Ill., now teaching at University of Chicago; Charles Meyer, of St. Louis, Mo., now graduate student at Washington University; Franklin B. Newman, of West Chester Pa., University of Pennsylvania '39; Charles E. Passage 2G, of Dansville, N. Y.; Gardner Patterson, now teaching at University of Michigan...
...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...
Britain's Singapore base looked impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...