Word: marbleheaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delaware by Emanuel Leutze and The Spirit of '76 by Archibald M. Willard. Some may be aware that the first hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art but few indeed know that the original of The Spirit of '76 is the particular pride of Marblehead, Mass, where it adorns that smug Boston suburb's ancient Abbott Hall...
...Bowdoin undergraduate prize of $75 for the best translation of a specified passage in Greek or Latin was won by Edward Lewis Bassett '36 of Marblehead for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greek." Honorable mention went to John Joseph Ney '35 of Dorchester...
Richard T. Cassidy '35, of Marblehead--Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75, open to undergraduates for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, entitled "Antonie Hurtado de Mendoza: his Life and Works...
...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...
...Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled: "Well, you'll have to wait a minute...