Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feels better about things: he meets his wife at a concert, lays the groundwork of a reconciliation, and goes off to Duxbury by himself to think everything over. The Author, like his hero and unlike many of his death-possessed colleagues, has a personal reason for his bias towards grave thoughts. When he was n he saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. Harvardman (1911), Conrad Aiken was Class Poet, in a college generation that included such notables as Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Van Wyck Brooks. Walter Lippmann, the late John Reed, Heywood Broun...
...WANTS BUT LITTLE-Wilson Wright-Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor...
...pheasant, with a broken wing, which ventured into the Eliot House quadrangle, was shot by residents of the House yesterday morning. The bird was buried in the quadrangle and a tablet erected over the grave...
...courses yet exist to explode the notions held by children that a lie does not count if you cross your fingers, or that if your nose itches you will have company, 'or kiss a fool. But Teachers College provides such grave analyses as this, concerning the theory that a snake's tail does not die until sundown: "This may seem true to an individual who is not a keen observer, and his observation may even support his belief. Many of the lower animals do not die instantly as a result of severe injuries. A snake's tail...
Despite world protests over anti-Semitic outrages in Germany and boycott murmurings that offer grave threats to German commerce and industry (see below), German business seemed to approve the Nazi dictatorship last week. In Berlin tycoons of the Reichs Federation of Industry signed a manifesto promising the Government their fullest support. Led by chemical and brewing stocks, the Berlin Bourse continued a boom that had been three weeks under way. carrying some stocks 300% to 400%, above their crisis lows...