Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse a hundred miles from Cambridge. For decades they walked across the fields to visit with one of the five or six thousand families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under...
...dream of freedom and the fight for freedom necessary to the seeking of that Truth which in Latin is inscribed upon the Harvard seal. Perhaps it is the never failing presence in Harvard classes of a man or a few men who in college give promise and in later life make the promise good of signal distinction and usefulness in the world...
Beyond in ever widening circles the life of the great institution carries itself on in Fogg Museum (the new elegance that replaces "Norton's pride" and house beauty of other times); Memorial Hall, where great men in their inconspicuous youth have taken their meals and later in its theatre spoken greatness or received honoring degrees; the Freshman dormitories (Lowell's dream, Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities...
...alligators, a tree frog, a wind, an unborn chicken, all reverently humanized. France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote for the Swedish Ballet, compiled Negro poems, folklore...
SERENADE To THE HANGMAN-Maurice Dekobra-Payson & Clarke ($2.50). Ibrahim, an Egyptian cuckolder, is imprisoned in Stamboul, about to be hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide...