Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking like Peck's bad boy, Venezuelan General Nogales stands in full Turkish uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been...
...body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that it was life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears. But the old couple thought the bird sang only to ease their mourning, that the cat planned death to their particular bird, that the stars wept for their sorrow...
...Secretary, who holds this position as long as he lives, the Seniors also selected six men to be the Permanent Class committee. These men are as follows: Norwood Penrose Hallowell, of Readville; Charles Crehore Cunningham, of Milton; Oscar Sutermeister, of Kansas City, Missouri; James Barr Ames, of Wayland; William Peck Elwell, of Arlington; and Beekman Pool of New York City...
Norwood Penrose Hallowell Charles Crehore Cunningham Oscar Sutermeister James Barr Ames William Peck Elwell Beekman Pool...
...CLASS SECRETARY *John DcQuedville Briggs, Jr. 79 Eustis Dearborn 73 Alexander Cochrane Forbes 57 Augustin Hamilton Parker, Jr. 44 FOR PERMANENT CLASS COMMITTEE *Norwood Penrose Hallowell 213 *Charles Crchore Cunningham 185 *Oscar Sutermeister 171 *James Barr Ames 144 *William Peck Elwell 126 *Beekman Pool 112 Frederick Fessenden Wilder 109 Arthur Willing Patterson 95 George Keith Martin 94 Elting Elmore Morison 75 Josiah Macy Erickson 70 William Francis Brooks 67 Duaue Weills Rainbolt 61 FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. 196 *Robert Morrison Faxon 143 *Wilson Hill Crosby 137 *Thomas Eliss Armstrong 131 *Donald Murdoch Frame 115 *Otto Ernest...