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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert B. Lord, 2G., of Allston, Mass., has been awarded a scholarship from the American Council of Learned Societies
...Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare, every volume of it. If for no other reason that that the notes are page-by-page and not lumped all together in a formidable unwieldily mass...
...however, was known to be a man of individual and tenacious opinions. He believed in phrenology. He despised smoking, drinking, ballet dancing. He was proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse in Franklin, Mass, to earn his books, working his way through Brown University and Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In 1832, when his wife Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown's president, had died, Lawyer Mann's hair supposedly turned white in a single night and he became more reclusive and contemplative than...
...When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag box just before a mass of red-hot slag pours into it. Afterward he smashes Bill Morgan's jaw, takes the money back, confers with Mrs. Finney about matrimony...
...other bit of Bullock history: "In the middle of the summer of 1930, I was talking to former President Coolidge in his little law office in Northampton, Mass. Mr. Coolidge said to me, and I remember his exact words, 'There will be an investigation of investment trusts.' I replied that I would welcome such an investigation...