Word: hovenden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hovenden, Yale '26: "I repeat the words of the Boston Herald, that if the Harvard football team would only learn the fundamentals and play as a unit, it might have a chance of beating Yale...
...could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other interesting specimens they could only express an inevitable doubt that such opera as "A Frosty Morning, Montclair," "The Hurrying River" by Robert H. Nisbet, "Afterglow" by Henry B. Snell, "The Last Moments of John Brown" by Thomas Hovenden will be considered "masterpieces" at the end of another, even though an equally enterprising century...
...whose efforts to please made her, at last, a hypocrite even to hypocrisy; among the men of genius, Tom Cardan, three-bottle philosopher with a face that had two sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique and a motor car; Mr. Calamy, 'by inclination a minor prophet, by fate an amorist, whose talent for meditation incessantly scuffled with his genius for seduction; Falx, Guild Socialist, who was amazed...
...company conversed. They spoke of man's relationship to the Absolute, of the art of Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
...National Theatre. The first performance yesterday afternoon proved that the play is a thin but entertaining comedy that might almost be one of Jane Austen's own novels boiled down to fit the stage. As the charming authoress, Mrs. Massey carried the burden of the acting brilliantly. Miss Hovenden, Mr. Massey, and especially Miss Sibley were attractive in their respective roles, while Alexander Steinert Jr. gave a charming musical interlude on the antique piano of Beethoven. Scenery for the first two acts was good, and the costumes win special mention...