Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophomore and Junior members of the Harvard Naval Science Unit will embark on the destroyer Dupont at Boston Navy Yard on Saturday, and will proceed to Fort Pond Bay, on the eastern end of Long Island, where they will meet detachments from Yale and Georgia Tech. The summer cruise this year will be along the eastern coast of Florida, and will last until July...
Efforts to modernize the play by such devices as a radio-equipped roadster, which Peg drives into a pond, are a failure. The most convincing element in Peg O' My Heart is Miss Davies' pardonable affection for her own brogue, which sometimes causes her to speak as though she had a live mackerel under her tongue. Typical shot: Peg's father. Pat (J. Farrell MacDonald) when he sees that she is downcast, advising her to appeal to the Wee Folk...
...Went yesterday to Cambridge and spent most of the day at Mount Auburn; got my luncheon at Fresh Pond, and went back again to the woods. After much wandering and seeing many things, four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see-not to eat not for love, but only gliding. . . ." Thus patly comes a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal to supply a title for a novel about Harvard. Good novels of U. S. college life have been rare since Francis Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. More comprehensive...
...first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone can to stealing a picture from John Barrymore. Before that she had been a stage actress whose principal talent seemed to be for getting and then losing lead parts in plays like The Big Pond and Death Takes a Holiday...
...mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth, Friendship Village, Bridal Pond, Portage, Wisconsin, and Other Essays...