Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather pleasant to take just a momentary glance at the Yale team for next year. Mills, the wing responsible for two of the Eli goals last Saturday, has been elected Captain and of all the men who skated with him in that game only the mediocre Sophomore line and Lyndon Wilson, who played at left defense, will be on the ice next year. The Class of 1935 furnished more men for the Eli squad than any class has ever done, and this is the year '35 leaves the Colleges...
...snapping turtle, is the black sheep of a gentle English family. Author Walpole, who has a good word for everybody, seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...
...soon lifted him out of the Milwaukee machinery business to manage his Public Ledger. Young Mr. Martin made good. Eventually he was given charge of all Curtis newspapers. His life was insured for $6,500,000. He raised a family of five, in a house across the road from Lyndon, the Curtis estate in Wyncote. Pa. And he became known on the outside as the "crown prince" of the Curtis organization...
When an interviewer asked Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis what piece of music he would like to listen to on his deathbed, he promptly replied: "Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...
...middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell by her eyes that she is intelligent, humorous, keen. Other books: The Ladies of Lyndon, A Long Weekend, Red Sky at Morning, The Fool of the Family...