Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Here, exhibited with simple declarative irony much like that with which Author T. F. Powys has exposed the rotten boroughs of England, but without that writer's bookmanship, are the hill and village folk that made possible in this land and century the preposterous "monkey trial" at Dayton, Tenn. Following no plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their...
...Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which...
...electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein '28 of Brookline; Francis Neilson Rich '29 of West Orange, N. J.; publicity, John Goldsmith Phillips '29 of Muskogee, Okla.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, la.; acting, Clarence Wesley Dupertuis '29 of Somerville; Fredric Hill Rahr '29 of Brookline; costume, George Wales Brewster '29 of Boston; Philip Ives Dunne '29, of New York City...
...British Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, maintained complete silence last week at his retreat, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. An irrepressible Mid-West headline writer once placed above a story concerned with Laureate Bridges-then in this country-the single devastating row of caps...
...this, his best work yet, the subtle operation of his gentle Irish irony, something of that astringent quality that sharpens the art of his countryman, Painter Willie Orpen, who once painted a swarthy, hawk-faced gypsy basking with his woman and trained bear on the lush, noon-flooded Hill of Howth...