Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of the 135-pounders in Monday's trials is to be taken as typical of their ability, this class should see the fastest bouts of the evening. J. W. Fellows '30 has displayed more aggressiveness than any of the contestants so far; Paul Johnston '30 gave a fine exhibition of boxing; and G. H. Nawn '32, after trailing for the first round on Monday, rallied strongly to come through with a victory. Since there are to be two bouts in this class, the winners will have to meet in their second fight of the evening...
Silenus. In Athenian drama, Pappo-silenus (Daddy Silenus) was the father of many Silenuses. In Greek mythology the handsome Hermes begat a single Silenus. This paunchy roisterer was the tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook it brown." Uncooked and still open-minded, Editor Sedgwick gathered together all reasoned criticisms that had come...
...swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant...