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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This evening at 8.30 o'clock, C. T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will read at the Union from the works of the great Victorians, including Browning, Dickens, Tennyson, and Thackeray. Preceding his reading, he will deliver a short address on Browning and Tennyson in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR COPELAND WILL READ FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...lily white" movement (TIME, Feb. 18). He went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana's Old Black Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...wildest predictions about the Hoover Cabinet never placed in the Secretaryship of Commerce a man of rebellious originality. Everybody knew that to that office would go some particular Hoover choice (the last to be made as it turned out) who would execute the Hoover program as already established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamont's Lay | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Laborites, but in those days, the helm of Liberalism was steadied by the firm hand and moral weight of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, now dead (TIME., Feb. 27, 1928). Today there is no force within the Liberal Party able to keep Little David from staging his own particular brand of rip-roaring Taffy Welshman's holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Much for Lloyd George? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...thought of Aunt Lotta Truelove, a creature of passions who had had three husbands and as many children but neglected them all for theosophy. Specifically, Cecily hated Lotta because Sophie, daughter of the house, was undeniably like her aunt-beautiful Sophie who wondered and waited and watched for her particular destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smalltown | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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