Word: lusitania
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...grand, fun-filled days of the '50s when he and his friends began the Paris Review, but about a 70-year-old photographer, an ostensible failure, who is always in the right place at the right time yet always gets the wrong picture. He is on the Lusitania, but shoots only the horizon and a snip of the bow as the ship goes down; he is present at a political assassination, but records only the assassin's coattails; he was present when the flag was raised at Iwo Jima, but handed his camera to someone else while...
...would entail vast additional expenditures and mobilization of the reserves, but because it might bring in Peking or Moscow. The President observed last week that he has not permitted bombing of Haiphong Harbor because when he thinks of the Soviet ships backed up there, he thinks of the S.S. Lusitania and the U.S.S. Maine...
...intensification of the issue on campus. Four Harvard men died aboard the Lusitania. The History Club voted to support severing relations with Germany. One major issue was whether or not special exams should be given to students leaving school to go into training. The Hasty Pudding Club cancelled its annual show for the first time since 1864 because of the international situation. The CRIMSON declared: "When the time for quick action comes Harvard will be ready and the undergraduates duty will be an immediate and unflinching response to the call." Meanwhile, one professor in the German Department published a letter...
...case of one shoving the other off the sidewalk. But such nasty little scuffles have high frequency in the books of Jerome Weidman, as in his 15th novel, Other People's Money. The hero, Victor Smith, is orphaned at three when his parents go down on the torpedoed Lusitania. Young Victor is installed in the luxurious Manhattan home of Walter Weld, his father's employer, where he is later joined by young Philip Brandwine, another orphan of a Weld employee. Remarkably, neither child seems to have any living relatives. More remarkably, both are Jews, but Victor does...
...came back with 100 orders; this year Wells's man, A.S. Richardson, brought back 1,000 orders, an increase of 200 over five years ago. Henry Poole & Co. has American family accounts going back to the 1880s (one of the partners survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania); today 40% of Poole's total orders are from...