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...dejected young lady led to a protracted correspondence. More and more intimate the missives became. Photographs were exchanged. Through the long winter months the thing continued, and when the snow melted and trees began to send forth their fragrant greenery Cupid rasped his horny palms together in grim satisfaction. Hymen's gay preparations filled the balmy air. Now comes the insidious note into the happy melody, a curt note from the girl's father...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/5/1935 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, arrived from Elyria,Ohio, to perform her "favorite chore," that of "Hymen's assistant." Countess Eugenie Zicha of Prague had also arrived in Manhattan. So had Jacob Miller of Ontario and Theodore Kabelac of Philadelphia who eyed each other coldly, were united only in eagerness to meet the Countess. Fairly bubbling with excitement, roly-poly Mrs. Stull toddled about her hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swordfish | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

CRIMSON DAILY DARTMOUTH White, F. H., r.e. l.e., Banks Weld, r.t. l.t., Moore Creelman, r.g. l.g., Palmer White, P. (Capt.) c. c., Danielson Ingram, l.g. r.g., Hymen, (Capt.) Boyd, l.t. r.t., Ripley Lilley, l.e. r.e., Barrett Sims, q.b. q.b., Hess Monre, l.h.b. l.h.b., Wardwell St. John, r.h.b. r.h.b., Webb Hogart, f.b. f.b., McVicar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Forces Defend Scalps Against Daily Dartmouth In Battle Today--Visitors Threaten Faux Passing Attack | 10/21/1932 | See Source »

...minor Handel Mr. Barrere and Mr. Whiting Charming Butterfly Campra My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair Haydn Mermaid's Song Haydn Miss Collins Sonata, D minor Scarlatti Sonata, B flat major Scarlatti Siciliana, F major Scarlatti Sonata, F minor Scarlatti Mr. Whiting Dances from "Les Fetes de 1'Hymen" Rameau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...Cohen promoted the circulation, most successfully, for nearly two years. Then, without any of the usual short-story apprenticeship, he wrote this full length novel, which will be definitely important if it leads to further study of the Pardways, as now planned. Lester Cohen's father is Dr. Hymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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