Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roslindale, Mass.; William E. Braden '41, of Toledo, O.; Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, of Springfield, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vt., Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Magruder '40, of Bethesda, Md.; Walter D. Riddle, Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pa.; and Holland L. Willard '40, of Brookline, Mass...
...calling again. A competent newspaperman, he might have been a better novelist. The light he sheds on world affairs flickers somewhat dimly beside the flashes of Duranty, Gunther, Sheean; but for character vignettes and earthy episodes, he beats the lot. Examples: >The headmaster of his grammar school in Gorcum, Holland, was a tightlipped, frog-eyed, wrinkled Huguenot with the curling fingernails of a Chinese mandarin and the literal severity of a Spanish Inquisitor. He beat a boy to unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly gray heavenly roof." Heaven, it seemed, was never pitiless. After morning prayers...
...Edward, New York, H. Rushton Harwood Jr. '39, of Springfield, John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vermont, Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Joseph S. Wysan '39, of Milford, William H. Magruder '40 of Bethesda, Maryland, Walter D. Riddle Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, Holland L. Willard '40, of Lawrence, and William A. Braden...
Other countries represented include Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Guatemala, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Roumania, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Vonezuela, and Wales...
...Berlin one morning last week 100 Jewish children piled aboard a special car on a train for the Hook of Holland. At the German border they were joined by 100 others from the Hamburg area. They were the vanguard of some 5,000 persecuted German youngsters whom a British committee headed by Jewish Viscount Samuel has arranged to settle in English homes. And they were the first refugees who have enjoyed the cooperation of the Reich in getting...