Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election Problems. Bill Jenner was in rare form. He quoted John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke and Martin Dies. He roared in a voice obviously intended to be heard all the way back in Indiana. He stomped his pointed shoes. He held out his hands and quivered his fingertips. The Watkins committee, he shouted, came close "to recommending the punishment of a member of this body for fighting an alien conspiracy to destroy our nation...
...fall out for cadet training (a period that Christopher particularly disliked), Headmaster Miller got the call. "This is Christopher's father," said a gruff voice over the phone. 'My lad has had the good fortune to be left Marlborough College, the prep school at Mill Hill. He would like to go over and have a look at the place. Is that all right with you?" So Christopher had his look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing with the glorious tales he told. The first thing old Bumblie...
...stories grew, Headmaster Miller began to get suspicious. He looked up Christopher's new property on the public school list, found no such place as Marlborough at Mill Hill. After telephoning Christopher's father, he also found that the boy had no uncle and no inheritance. Last week, as Headmaster Miller good-naturedly tried to decide what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes...
Yerby started out trying to write "serious" fiction. In 1944 he worked up a Richard Wrighteous novel about a boy in the steel mills. "A perfectly terrible book," says Yerby now. "I was in love with Bessemer furnaces - an unrewarding kind of a romance." Yerby then made his decision. He quit his foundry job and went to New York. He told the Dial Press's George Joel, the only publisher who had shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned...
...plan to build an addition to Winthrop House joining Gore and Standish Halls has been submitted to the administration by Ronald M. Ferry '12, Winthrop Housemaster. The new structure would connect the two buildings at the Mill Street...