Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen years previously, in 1802, the Congress of the struggling American republic had got around to founding an academy at an inconsequential little place on the Hudson called West Point "for the practical and theoretical training of young men for the national military service, who, upon satisfactorily completing the four-year course are eligible for commissions as second lieutenants in the United States Army." The Vagabond, lovable drain-trap for unimportant details and evanescent emotions that he is, finds himself vastly impressed by this very ordinary second lieutenant coincidence just now. Napoleon and West Pointers--both young men starting life...
Juicy & Nocturnal. At the gallery of tall Bostonian Hudson D. Walker, watercolors by quiet Harry Glassgold pleased visitors with their dexterity and light-filled colors. In several of them 30-year-old Artist Glassgold got away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...
Phillip Loman Harris, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York--Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts...
...suitable occasions, the J. L. Hudson Co., biggest department store in Detroit, displays on its Woodward Avenue facade a gigantic Stars and Stripes, publicized by them as the largest flag in the world...
...Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received a radiogram from the Hudson's Bay Co., 1,200 miles north in Baffin Land: FATHER COCHARD SINCE NINE DAYS VERY SICK; TEMPERATURE 105; PAINS ON LEFT SIDE. FATHER REFUSING FOOD. PLEASE HELP...