Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light and occasional verse, author of 28 books, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Barrett Wendell and His Letters, the monumental five-volume Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany. A professional Harvard man like Holmes, loving Boston no less than Holmes did (although he was born in Rhode Island, brought up in Philadelphia), Howe is an overseer of Harvard, was for 25 years a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into...
...Rhode Island's scholarly, libertarian Senator Theodore Francis Green last week returned to Washington with a warm appreciation of tropic hospitality. Along with New York's Republican Representative Hamilton Fish and Democratic Representative Matthew Merritt, Democrat Green was the guest last fortnight of the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In Ciudad Trujillo (the General's new name for the venerable city of Santo Domingo), the U. S. delegation looked upon 1) a box (which remained unopened) containing a tiny heap of bone & dust billed as the true "last parts" of Christopher Columbus...
Largest in the U. S., it covers 1,250,000 Texas acres (almost twice as large as Rhode Island), is valued conservatively...
...setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution and how it grew, the rise of the Republicans (later called Democrats), everything from A to the XYZ affair-but so sweetly does she coat her historical pill that it might well be prescribed for students who are sick of textbooks...
...York weekend had the good fortune to witness an exceptional example of this Service. Before the train pulled into each station the conductor would poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just another one of the big cities...