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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Sunday June 19, President Lowell will deliver the Baccalaurate Sermon at 4 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. After the Baccalaureate service, President Lowell will hold a reception at his home, 17 Quincey Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOUNCE ANNUAL CLASS DAY EVENTS | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

...history of the staging of Greek tragedies goes back to about 1850, when Thomas De Quincey described the first Greek play to be produced in Great Britain as the "next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oedipus and Jocasta Drew Customers at $25 a Head Not So Long Ago--Sophocles Scored Smash in Cambridge of 1881 | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keats+G525 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...meet. The institutions entered are as follows: Attleboro High, Beverly High, Brockton High, Cambridge High and Latin, Fairhaven High, Framingham High Gloucester High, Haverhill High, Lawrence High, Lowell High, Lynn Classical School, Lyun English School, Malden High, Marlboro High, Medford High, Melrose High, New Bedford High, Newton High, Quincey High, Rindge Technical School, Salem High, Sharon High, Somerville High, Winthrop High, and Woburn High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERSCHOLASTIC TRACK MEET AT STADIUM TODAY | 6/3/1922 | See Source »

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