Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton...
Lacrosse candidates will report Monday for fall practice under the direction of Hamilton Lane '28, who has scheduled a program which will probably include two practice games, one with Boston University, and one with...
...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...
Economist Jenks Sirs: I wish to call your attention to an omission from your "Milestones" column of the death of a great man, Dr. Jeremiah W. Jenks, president of Alexander Hamilton Institute and an internationally known economist on Aug. 25. It so happened that his picture was published in an advertisement of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in your magazine for that week. PHILIP SOBEN Brooklyn...