Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following scholarships and aids for 1929-1930 have been awarded: The Harvard Club of France scholarship of J. H. Neukirch 1G; the Swift scholarship to S. H. Stackpole '33; two Henry D, and Jonathan M. Parmenter scholarships to R. A. Peel '31 and to J. L. Ware '30; the Harvard Club of Connection scholarship to Arthur Richmond '33; the Bowditch fund to K. C. Sanders '30; a Special University Scholarship to W. M. Whitehill Jr. 4G, and the Clifford M. Holland Memorial Aid of the Engineering School to J. B. Slade...
...scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap's custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals...
...things about women when La Ruse's carnality triumphs over his own romanticizing. But even La Ruse feels it necessary to escape the unhealthy witchery of Laetitia, which he does by suicide; not, however, before he has affectionately given young Cartwright enough money to pay his debts. Meanwhile Jonathan Wild is taken out and hanged, and an elegant, periwigged Lord, the poisoner of his wife and most of his relatives, arrives to placate Laetitia...