Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
...Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...
...Very Last Minute actors dressed as British tourists have been nightly "shown around the world," have boasted at sight of each new marvel that something better of the same kind exists in the United Kingdom. On reaching Venice the guide exclaimed. "How fairylike is this Venetian night!" Whereat a Briton stoutly boasted, "The Prince of Wales is even more...
Like most Caesars, Blount Marvel is divided into two parts. His better half, Leda, was born more sophisticated than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days...
...Ph.D. '29, instructor in French; J. H. Gleason '30, now at Balliol College, Oxford, of Newton; J. D. Gordon, Jr. '30, instructor in English; F. W. Hoeing, A.M. '30, assistant in History; K. N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government; A. B. Martin '30, 2L, of Geneva, Ohio; W. M. Marvel '30, 2L, of West Medford; R. H. Phelps '30, instructor in German; R. I. Westgate, Manitoba, '24, instructor in Greek and Latin; H. M. Smallwood Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, instructor in Chemistry...