Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congregationalist," writes his daughter. In the Abbott household conversations turned largely on pious and literary matters, with the three children reduced to boredom when they were not afraid of saying something wrong. Largely a record of the wrong things that Eleanor said, Being Little in Cambridge begins with a scene of consternation when Eleanor declared she could remember her birth, cheerfully described it to some ecclesiastical visitors. It proceeds lightly to a few glimpses of Cambridge neighbors, including James Russell Lowell, Long fellow, Howells, Ole Bull, who played at a fair the Abbott children gave, recounts an abundance of childish...
Tuesday September twenty-ninth nineteen-thirty six! From a little farmhouse in Alsace, just a stone's throw from the German Rhineland which Dictator Hitler has so recently fortified, comes this scene of European fear and trembling. It is the dining-room of Pierre Soubriquet, an Alsatian farmer like many of his kind. Around him are seated his wife, Adelaide, and their four young children. M. Soubriquet is speaking...
...cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City's older members, poised comfortably in their leather chairs in the glass-enclosed lounge that runs along behind the famed green, have wondered ever since if they would again look out on a scene which, for pure excitement, could match the Travis tragedy. Last week they looked...
...first scene was a hurricane. Whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean, the storm that was doing millions of dollars of damage elsewhere along the coast hit Garden City the day of the semifinals. Golf tradition, imported from Scotland, where hurricanes are unheard of and where anyone who waited for a tine day would rarely play at all, says golf is an all-weather game. Officials of the U. S. Golf Association refused to hear of a postponement, sent Scotland's Jack McLean and New York's George Voigt, Cincinnati's Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny...
...multiply our associations with that distant time. In this spirit, the banner that floats over us has been prepared. It will be deposited among the archives of the University. Our hope is, that a century hence, it will collect under its folds the Alumni of Harvard. Over what a scene will it on that day display its blazenry! What a feeling of relationship will it establish between that age and the present!" He then moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936." Immediately thereafter, the record continues...