Word: rices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Dexter Scholarships seven students of English Literature, several of them instructors in the Department of English will be enabled to study and travel in England during the summer of 1929. They will visit Oxford and Cambridge Universities while there. The winners of these scholarships are: Warner G. Rice, Ph.D. '27. Instructor in English: Lawrence S. Wright, University of California '24, Instructor in English: Marston S. Balch, A.M. '25: Robert J. Allen, A.M. '28: Mark W. Eccles A.M. '28: Hyman T. Silverstein A.M. '27; Claude M. Newlin...
...other great thing was the $300,000 building promised by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice of Manhattan, as a memorial to her son Alumnus Harry Elkins Widener. The building has already been nicknamed "Hobby Hall," It will contain lathes, printing presses, cinema machines, dark rooms, telescopes, microscopes, stuffed birds, model engines, yards of linoleum for linoleum blocks, modelling clay, paints. Here students may feed, groom, ride their hobbies, also take courses in natural sciences...
...Street Scene", by Elmer Rice, will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice...
...alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first...
...service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience into "Disagreeable Things," "Very Tiresome Things," "Deceptive Things." Under "Annoying Things" she lists: "When one sends a poem...