Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sales value of rare books is far more than an alibi. This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
...munificent Harkness gift to Harvard seems likely to hasten a process already going on--namely, the fronting of the university upon the Charles river...
Harvard has been reaching out toward the river ever since the opening of Soldiers field and the stadium. Freshman dormitories and the vast new business school have moved the university's centre of gravity still more in that direction...
...volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part...
From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge...