Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spring George Washingtons were less imaginative. One short note was his specialty. It read...
...Robert Spring was the most expert of autograph forgers, the most blatant was a French contemporary named Vrain Lucas. Within eight years he produced and sold no less than 27,000 autograph manuscripts including a polite little note from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene. His greatest mistake: composing a letter from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar in modern French...
...from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis and the men he trails, but readers who are sick & tired of painful realism may well find surcease in The Wolf at the Door...
...dressed in the traditional caps and gowns, looking very scholastic and dignified as they passed in review before the spectators. A note of humor was added by the fact that they carried on their shoulders three young urchins from the Cambridge suburbs, one of whom was sporting a severe black...
This was followed by the singing of Fair Harvard under the leadership of Frank E. Johnson, III, Chorister. Hardly had the last note passed away than the battle of paper began, with great fury. With a strong breeze blowing, everybody was soon covered with bits of paper. The Senior Class with deadly accuracy threw paper bombs at their friend in the stadium, who returned in kind. After this subsided, the Class marched out onto the baseball field and halted in left field, arranged by classes. Then they all marched around the diamond, cheered the Yale team in their dugout periodically...