Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will...
...most original trait of American cinema is the sly metamorphosis of familiar novels from their printed pages to the screen. Many who would be frightened away by its true-story title will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted ill will...
However, the source of water for the new pump will not be a well as formerly, but a Cambridge water main, and the old tin drinking cup will be replaced by a modern "bubbler", controlled by the pump handle...
...With the main business before it of preparing a resolution to President Conant, the Harvard Student Union holds its last formal meeting of the year at 8 o'clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House...
...Field of German, because of its narrow appeal, is one of the smallest Departments in the College. Yet if a man desires to learn German and German Literature and is willing to devote his main energies to study, he will not find the field lacking in worthwhile and enjoyable material. It is not a snap course, however, and takes rather more time than some fields...