Word: handing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April was at hand and the trout-hunter's mission was much more important than might have been suspected. Because he was Lawrence Richey, erstwhile of the U. S. Secret Service, lately raised to the estate of $10,000-per-year secretary to the President of the U.S. And he was looking for places where President Hoover might enjoy "the rejoicing and gladness" of not having "to decide a blanked thing until next week," as he (Herbert Hoover) once...
...bearing down recklessly upon a 17-year-old Negro girl. He snatched her back to safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown. Six months of each year Mr. Curtis traveled alone in Europe. Some of the money which he gave...
...wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...
Robert Reinhart '29, magician, will appear at the Union at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow night in the regular Sunday evening entertainment offered there. Reinhart will talk on "The Aspects of the Magician's Life", and will illustrate his talk freely. He will also relate the history of sleight of hand artists and has promised to expose some of the famous Indian rope tricks. Reinhart has appeared on previous University occasions, having showed his tricks at the Instrumental Club concerts...
...other hand, the younger graduate is more inclined to appreciate the prerogatives possessed by the contemporary Harvard man. He probably feels that the evils of present day Harvard undergraduate life are less obnoxious than they are painted by the warmest supporters of the Housing system. For undergraduate life at Harvard is not so unnatural and artificial that the House Plan can eliminate immediately the small social groups, as one Harvard Club officer predicts. The more enthusiastic older alumni are too optimistic. When it is admitted that the same small social groups will be just as conspicuous a part...