Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness; his "Voyage to Brobdingnag" magnified its faults to gigantic, revealing, revolting stature. He held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward...
Last week, when the U. S. Polo Association announced 284 changes in its 1938 handicap list, most noteworthy news was the upping of 27-year-old Michael Phipps of Old Westbury, Long Island, from nine goals to ten (top notch). With Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart and Cecil Smith already ranked at ten goals, the U. S. can (and probably will-barring accidents) name a 40-goal team, theoretically the best in the world, to defend the Westchester Cup in the international matches with England next summer. Not since 1925 has the U. S. had such a top-notch four...
Only the momentum of his best-seller reputation keeps Author Hutchinson going. As Once You Were, the story of a middle-aged writer named Piers Exceat who retires to a small island-estate to re-live a sort of Boy Scout boyhood, makes Author Hutchinson's If Winter Comes seem in retrospect like hard-hammered realism. Not only has his sentimentality aged terribly but even his style has become wrinkled and chapfallen...
...Thursday case will be argued before Chief Justice Fred T. Field, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; Justice William W, Moss, of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; and Judge Robert N. Gorman, of the Supreme Court of Ohio...
William R. Byler '39, of Toledo, Ohio; John B. Fisher '41, of Los Angeles, California;Richard C. W. Fisher '41, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island; William C. Flinn '39, of Redwood Falls, Minnesota; Sanford L. Gray '41, of Cleveland, Ohio; John F. Grindle, Jr. '39, of Washington; Clarence Hagen '39, of Marysville, Washington; George B. Handelman '41, of Pittsburgh; Louis Bartz '40, of Omaha, Nebraska...