Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holds upon hill and valley, rock and slate...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...Navy were still in striking distance, but at the railroad bridge they were out of it and M. I. T. was trying wildly and uselessly to hold off Syracuse. Cornell was so far ahead now that the speed boats following behind moved up and let their wash rock the shells of the losing crews. Cornell was three lengths in front of Syracuse, eight in front of M. I. T., Columbia was behind California but ahead of Washington. Just before the finish line the Navy swamped in the wash of a Coast Guard cutter...
...Ansonia, Conn., Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...