Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Philip E. Lilienthal '36, the other returning veterans competing for the third year are Richard Ford '36 and Richard Morgan 4th '36. Other promising swordsmen who are fast shaping up for the opening match with the Peroy Salle d'Armes on Tuesday, February 18 are Elmer Rarp, Jr. Oc.C and Albert E. Weiner...
...light of this, it is no surprise to learn that in his last years Moore groomed a young novelist who is a deliberate stylist to write his biography. Moore told Charles Morgan that he wanted his biography to be, not a "tombstone in two volumes," but "a true novel." Mr. Morgan undertook this task, but the withholding from him of an extensive correspondence which Moore had deemed essential for the work, has caused him to abandon his attempt. The "Epitaph on George Moore" contains his explanation and "a distillation" of the materials he had gathered for the work...
...most valuable for its statement of Moore's aims in his later work, the "prose epics" which he considered his masterpieces, which critics like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Humbert Wolfe believe have "re-created" the novel, and which few ordinary mortals ever read. Moore dedicated himself with the single-mindedness of a fanatic to the search for an "absolute prose." He imposed on himself "a rule of evenness, a rule against emotional emphasis, a refusal not only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...
...changed much. At the earlier trial he had had to be reminded at the last minute to instruct the jury what to do in case it happened to find Patterson innocent. In much the same spirit he now viewed the first Negroes who had shown up in the Morgan County courthouse since Reconstruction times in the role of possible trial Jurors. As Bibb Graves had promised. Alabama was "going to observe the supreme law of America...
Nearest thing to an official comment from the law's side was the dark observation of the sheriff of Morgan County: "Somebody smarter than those Negroes . . . figured...