Word: holte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...
...appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
MOTHER AND SON-Remain Holland (translated by Van Wyck Brooks)- Henry Holt ($2.50). "They came there, they set fire to everything. . . . We ran away. Whenever we stopped, we could hear their feet galloping behind us. They were coming like a steam roller, the whole sky was black with them. Like a hail storm coming up. . . . We ran and ran." To this, the way people scampered away from the terror of the German invasion, Author Rolland, pacifist, finds a parallel in the way people let themselves be driven by the hail storm of their emotions...
...yesterday by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, who is the representative of the University on the national committee, and who is in charge of the local contest. In addition to Professor Holcombe two other members compose the national committee, Dean H. E. Hawkes of Columbia and Colonel L. H. Holt of West Point...
...SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock with the daughter of divorcees. POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The rise and fall of Jud Siisz, great Jew. SORREL AND SON - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). How a son justified his father's confidence...