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...Story. Old Peter B. Kayne, "pirate emeritus," had piled up a colossal fortune and started his son Rufus where he left off. Thereupon, having got religion and put his rather flushed past as far as possible behind him, he was devoting his senility to the satisfying contemplation of the works he had wrought and to feeding the squirrels in Central Park...
...CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - Arthur Train-Scribner's. Old Peter Kayne was a Wall Street pirate. His son Rufus acquired a social veneer over his inadequacies. The third generation consists of three daughters, each of whom meets catastrophe. The last thing to fall is the Kayne fortune. Whatever the accuracy of its depressing picture of modern society, the novel is interesting and often extremely penetrating...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...true, of course, that apotheosis and myth-making have long been going on, and for a long time were encouraged and practiced by our historians and biographers. "I say, don't you hate that damned Washington?" Rufus Choate is said to have said over a table at the Parker House. He meant the flat and rigid Byzantine enshrined Washington, the "faultless monster" of seventy years ago. A human, intelligent, and peccaole Washington has taken the place of that image. Professor Hart curiously mentions Washington's love of buying lottery tickets among his defects. At least one building in the Harvard...
...character of Tai Lo. the descendnt of Captin Kidd, and rightful ruler of the Island of Tambele, gave one of the best female impersonatious which has been seen in Cambridge, and was the hit of the show. W. B. Leach Jr. '21, the author of the play , as Rufus Dubb, the here, gave his part very creditably, and showed that he was not "another good man gone wrong". W. V. M. Faweett '21 is the assumed character of the 12-year-old Phoebe. P. L. Cheney '21 as the especial convict and R. S. Flinn '28, who played Mark Authony...