Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furys began with the return of 18-year-old Peter Fury to the slums after he had been expelled from college where he was studying to be a priest. It ended, 549 pages later, with his going to sea after he had destroyed his mother's last hope, had a love affair with Sheila, his brother's wife, witnessed a general strike. Most vivid characterization was the demoniac Mrs. Fury, who fought the squalor that rose like a flood around her and was defeated in every hope...
...Worcester, William Aaron Salant, Kirkland House and New York City, Robert Ellis Shalan, Dunster House and Brooklyn, N. Y., William Vick Smith, Winthrop House and Medford, Sheldon Charles Sommers, Eliot House and Indianapolis, Ind., Arthur Szathmary, Adams House and Quincy, Walter Bigelow Rosen, Eliot House and Katonah, N. Y., Peter Robert Viereck, Leverett House and New York City, and Charles Conrad Wright, Cambridge...
...abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which he gradually withdrew, adroitly transferring the ape's gaze to his own intently staring eyes. In a monotonous voice the operator intoned...
...MORNING FLIGHT-Peter Scott-Scribner ($10). In the front of this fine book is a self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well...
...crews line up now Peter T. Brooks '38 has taken Clark's position at seven on the Varsity and John H. Gardiner '38 is replacing Eliel at five. Whether this lineup will remain next spring is still a mystery although Bolles may have some pretty definite ideas by this time. The Jayvees and former Freshman boats have been holding each other pretty evenly in informal brushes on the river but the lineups have been rather disrupted by afternoon laboratories and classes...