Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given his violin by Philanthropist August Heckscher. He was to play on it at his Carnegie Hall debut in January. As Violinist Braun crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path. He waved wildly but there was a crackling and splintering and off went the truck, leaving $25,000 worth of uselessness on the asphalt...
...craft slid from the ways at Arendal, Norway, in the year 1886. No expense or genius was spared in her construction, for she was built to crash a path through the ice to the sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried...
...Vagabond wandered along his favorite path beside the Charles River last evening and reflected on the possibilities of a beautiful Harvard if grass and God were allowed half a chance. In the smoke of autumn some of the grossness of the Harvard architecture was lost and the fire warden's caboose atop Eliot almost disappeared in mist. A few blades of grass between the Houses would have reduced their architectural wranglings...
Only one detail, naive in its irony, contrived to lift the clouds from the Vagabond's shoulders. As he walked up the path to the Harvard Memorial Chapel he had been guided by signs pointing the way to "the new chapel." When he reached what will presumably be the entrance, his way was barred by another sign: DANGER! KEEP...
...Syracuse. Honor guest was eloquent Major General James Guthrie Harbord, A. E. F. Chief of Staff, who upon his retirement from the Army became board chairman of Radio Corp. of America. In his address to the legionnaires General Harbord seemed to be pointing them along the same path the G. A. R. once trod. Orated...