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...Mother was going to be a social somebody. ... I had to learn to play the harp ... so my mother could point to us and say, 'My talented children.' . . . When Mother broke her leg, Father said he was awful sorry but he was sure glad to have her away for a while." The jury awarded Helen's mother $100,000 but the judge set the verdict aside as against the weight of evidence and soon thereafter Illinois outlawed such suits...
...knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning over the entire cast is evidenced when at the end the whole family partakes of Mulligan stew-Ginger's favorite dish-in a garret room. "This," cries the elegant Mrs. Parker...
Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
Writing on the subject "The Poets' Harp," Salant treated the handling of the moon, as a subject in poetry, by Romantic poets. This was the same essay which he submitted as his honor thesis in the Department of English...
...other respects, too, the new Premier's policy was un-Rooseveltian, but his enemies seemed to think the deadliest argument they could raise against him among thinking Belgians was to harp on the Professor's alleged "admiration" for the U. S. President...