Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned to live at Sandwich, Mass., where he guards well the secret of his next book's subject...
Suddenly hearing a low crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer...
...final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier races, captured the President Hoover cup (sponsored, not donated, by the President, who, no yachtsman, hears about yacht doings from Secretary of Navy Adams...
Tennis. Eastern lawn (at Rye, N. Y.)- Singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, Tilden & Frank Hunter of New Rochelle, N. Y.; women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...