Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could see King George stiffly standing before the Cenotaph in a Field Marshal's khaki-colored greatcoat, beyond him, the British Cabinet in funereal black, beyond them a double row of bluejackets rigidly at attention, behind them the windows of the Home Office where Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Mary watched the ceremony. Big Ben bonged eleven times and a sudden dramatic silence blanketed the entire city of London...
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter...
...never realized it before, but the Vagabond has relatives. Two in particular. These two are gentlemen: one second cousin on his mother's side and an uncle-by-marriage. Three weeks ago they assailed the Vagabond's serenity (at that time he was tasting the wicked but delectable fruits of a class-cutting spree) by sending him letters on the same day. Each letter demanded in slightly officious terms, peculiar to the writing of middle-aged college men, that he obtain a ticket to the Harvard-Yale game for "your loving Cousin Arthur" and for "your ever-faithful Uncle Henry...
...sigh, "it is wonderful to have you two to entertain for the weekend." He prayed that he had struck the note of sarcasm off-key. "I suppose you're both keyed up for the game and ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would be a worse crime than...
...Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale Thomas G. Shepard Shall I, Wasting in Despair? Old English Air (Words by G. Wither, 1588-1667) Where the Elm Tree Grows Yale Song Book Football Medley Arr. by Arthur Hall Yale Bright College Years Fair Harvard Yale and Harvard