Word: journeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered in the course of the nine stories for which Gibson is responsible, from an inebriated Kentucky Colonel's affair with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees what has happened in the past by delaying the journey of light rays. Murder, royal jewels, ghosts, all find their place in the volume; some of the stories are exceedingly droll, one is gripping, several are mediocre and one or two are asinine. On the whole, however, the stories are braced up by the ingenious manner in which the reader becomes...
...Here was Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, a serious stately lady, clad in gray and black. I was tempted to ask her where she obtained her information on Yale displayed in The Courage of the Commonplace; but didn't quite dare. W. B. Maxwell, whose The Day's Journey is a really fine recent English novel, was the British delegate. He is tall, dignified, with a much lined face that still gives an impression of softness. We talked for a time of the heat. Of what else can one speak on such a day? Fannie Hurst, not wanting...
...American humor are admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...
...help elect Dr. Shipstead. Sometime between the primaries in June, and the special election in July the Wisconsin Senator is expected to invade Minnesota once more on behalf of the next Farmer-Labor candidate, whoever he may be. Neither Democrats nor regular Republicans look with favor on his prospective journey...
...program for the Musical Clubs' concert follows: 1. Bonnie Dundee, Glee Club Mister Moon, Glee Club Schneider's Band, Glee Club 2. On to Plattsburg, Banjo Club Journey's End, Banjo Club 3. Instrumental Specialty, Jazz Band 4. Swing Song, Mandolin Club Laughing Eyes, Mandolin Club 5. Quartet Specialty (vocal) 6. Australia, Glee Club Good Night Ladies, Glee Club Presentation of Prize Cup to Winning Chorus 7. 1926 Class Song, Everybody Fair Harvard, Everybody