Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought him, St. Mawr the bay stallion, and made Rico ride him. Rico had known horses as a boy in Australia and to fear St. Mawr angered him beyond control. One day, in St. Mawr's own country, near the Devil's Chair in Wales, Rico screamed at the rearing horse and dragged him over backwards. St. Mawr lashed and strained to rise, his neck arched cruelly, his mad eyes leaping from their sockets. Crushed beneath, Rico still reined the immense horse to earth...
...galloped for brandy, Lou felt that the earth was flooded with evil, the positive evil that reins mankind to earth, keeping an unruptured surface over mankind's internal hemorrhage. As soon as possible, she went away with her mother and St. Mawr. Rico wanted St. Mawr shot or castrated, but Lou got him away to Texas-where he shed his deity on the wide, empty plains and made advances to a tall Texas mare...
...they settle into their chairs, visiting notables may be picked out by colored stripes and chevrons on their hoods. A lady with maize and white chevron is from Bryn Mawr. Cornellians wear carnelian and two white chevrons. Olive and blue is Tulane; gold silk and blue, the University of California; brown and blue, Tufts...
...nine who will return to Cambridge tomorrow are Edward C. Johnson, merchant and philanthropist, until recently the head of C. F. Hovey & Co.; and Selwyn A. Bowman, former member of Congress and still an active practitioner of law in Boston. The others are Professor James A. Towle of Bryn Mawr: Frederick W. Bradlee: Edward Carter: D. T. S. Leland, Dr. Samuer G. Webber; John T. Morse, the class secretary: and Charles A. Nelson...
...country's most brilliant philologists, as well as being an editor and author known universally for his writings. He is now editor of The Nation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught Sanskrit at Harvard in 1894, later taught at Bryn Mawr, and subsequently became Literary Editor of The Independent, and The New York Evening Post. Professor More has published 11 volumes of "Shelburne Essays" and numerous philosophical works