Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hence Dame Rumor becomes chief pilot. She should certainly be ousted as generally untrustworthy. Too often a student hears a course laconically described with one or two adjectives, and when actually enrolled in the course, finds that he differs heartily from the gratuitous snap judgment. When the tutors can give...
Scene, as well as subject, of course, is the U. S. Time-scheme will run from 1791 to 1933; the first two volumes cover 1884-1925, the last will go back to an earlier beginning. Readers of Look Homeward, Angel will remember its wildly sensuous account of the Gant family...
Among characteristic U. S. luxuries are jail cell doors of iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid...
The Iron Duke (Gaumont-British) exhibits the Duke of Wellington before, during and after Waterloo. An arch and finicky general, he seems to enjoy himself more at the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing...
In detail Dean Hanford said that "Now and then one hears complaints that with the increasing attention given to honors work and with the improvements in scholarship it has become more difficult for the student of average ability to remain in Harvard College. This conclusion is not borne out by...