Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Arab policemen and a Jewish officer were guarding the narrow lane that passes the Wailing Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, most sacred as shrine of the Jewish faith. The Arabs sat in silence, wishing they were in the nearby Mosque Omar where thousands of Moslems were celebrating the eve of Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha...
...expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...
Decision. The suburban tone of this play was accented by a live white cat which pawed the footlights during the first act. So charming was the animal that the audience all but forgot how Nancy Lane's adopted children, and their sudden $750,000 legacy, were about to be filched from her by her wily, citified sister and brother-in-law. Later on, when the cat had slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation...
...book edited by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the Brooks House will contain the usual summaries of sports, extra-curricular activities and organizations within the University Songs, cheers, calendars, publications, clubs, eating and social facilities, and the advertisements of Harvard business men will find a place in the manual for the benefit of the bewildered new-comers...
Died. Henry Marcus Lane, 74, of Cincinnati, famed construction engineer (Pike's Peak cog railroad); in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...