Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goodness! Nineteen-twenty-eight! [Chuckle.] Why, its half a century since I left college. I played football-and I was class salutatorian. They used to call me 'Big Bill.' I suppose [chuckle] all heavy Williams get called that [chuckle]. Big Bill Edwards-Big Bill Thompson [chuckle, chuckle...
Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
Just before the Court left for Scotland Her Majesty motored out from Windsor Castle, quite unaccompanied except by her chauffeur, for a visit to the Berkshire nursing home. What happened next became a secret which has been weeks in leaking...
...flat emotions; a young musician's painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
...striking differences between the two colleges in general atmosphere," he replied, "Oxford is much more leisurely--if we are going to a class we start early so that we can walk slowly and converse enroute. One never sees students bustling around to a lecture with only a few minutes left in which to arrive there. Your Yard is often deserted but one may always see men strolling leisurely around our campus smoking and talking. There seems to be more of a spirit of comraderie...