Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...Clarence C. Pell Jr., & Robert Grant III: the national racquets doubles championship, beating Edward Mitchell Edwards & Warren Ingersoll after 1 hr. 10 min. of play at the New York Racquet & Tennis Club, 12-15, 18-16, 15-11, 15-8. In the balcony, watching, was Pell's father, nine times national doubles champion (with Stanley Mortimer) eliminated this year in the semi-finals by his son's runners...
...economic fulcrum on which Tide Rising is balanced is Jim Cogswell (Grant Mitchell), a smalltown New England druggist. Jim is the kind of man who pays his debts, faces his business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise...
...James A. Delehanty last week in Manhattan and asked him to interpret. Lawyer Fridenberg admitted he had drawn the seven-page closely-written document with five codicils for a client, since deceased. What he wanted to know from the Surrogate was: Did the will create trusts or did it grant annuities? Reading the will put Surrogate Delehanty in fine rhetorical fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there...
...Nathaniel Goddard ("Nat") Benchley, Harvard '38, was elected president of the Lampoon last December. t Fan Stylian Noli, exiled in 1924. Also expected at the 1912 Reunion is U. S. Minister to Albania Hugh Gladney Grant. **Kermit Roosevelt, who in 1929 while on an expedition in the Himalayas with Brother Theodore & Classmate Charles Suydam Cutting shot (not "caught") a Giant Panda, now on exhibition in Chicago's Field Museum...