Word: millponds
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...shoulder of a great mountain (from which Napoleon's Elba can be seen 40 miles out to sea) guards it from high winds. Long sand spits make the mountain look "like a great ship moored by its three ropes of sand"; more important, they make smooth as a millpond the blue lagoons lying on either side of the town. There in winter fat eels are snared for the Christmas tables of Italy. There in summer wealthy Italian families lounge. And there is the famed seaplane school of the Italian Air Force...
Unless the weather man forgets himself, Hanover, come Saturday, will find itself steeped in the traditional millpond atmosphere of late winter. Under such conditions, it is neither invigorating nor enjoyable to tramp through College Park or climb the Tower. The wonder of Baker, Sanborn and Carpenter lose their appeal after the first hour or so and the question arises of where to go and what to do. For the fraternity man the solution is simple--there is always the house and the radio. But for the house and the radio. But for the freshman who has contributed his check...
...Morrow family has letters indicating that William Garberson, a great-grandfather, captured the geese on a millpond in 1814. A local atlas 50 years old contains a picture of wild geese owned by Mathew McKinstry, grandfather. The birds were handed down generation to generation. When Farmer Morrow got them six years ago there were five in the flock but one of them died in transit, another died in a barnyard accident and a third escaped...
...Dampierres. They are collateral descendants of the marquis through one of his four sisters-in-law. That "such descendants" should be sent over on the Lafayette, the Chambruns thought outrageous! Happily U. S. citizens know little, care less about exquisite ripples of this sort on the suave millpond of highest French society. More interested in the S.S. Lafayette herself, they saw a ship sail into New York harbor last week which gives first-class comfort in all but name in "cabin class" cabins. By no means every first-class liner has the major "American feature" of the Lafayette: a private...
...never a rooter and nothing but a rooter. The rooter is as unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields are beehives of sport. Nor does the Oxford man do any less studying than the Harvard...