Word: shipwreck
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...sympathizes, of course, when heart-rending conditions in a home lead to marital shipwreck, particularly when, as in these cases, innocent children are involved. But a divorce followed by a remarriage five days later evokes no such sympathy . . . and a second divorce in the same family, with the hint of another possible remarriage in the offing, certainly does not seem to indicate the kind of parental influence that one might expect from a family of strong religious and social interests. The most discouraging feature of it all is that neither the President nor his wife has seen fit to give...
...plot is more realistic than usual, for the reform administration in New York permits the portrayal of an honest District Attorney. Possibly this is too rapid an advance, for the story concerns the life of two boys, close friends ever since they were rescued from a shipwreck. Both are essentially fine persons. But while Jim's code allows him honestly to mount the ladder of democracy to the position of District Attorney, Blackie finds that his fits best into the under-world. They remain friends, however, and not even the delicate time when Miss Loy changes her affections destroys their...
Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...
...House entertainments, and discussion groups, together with the most welcome variety of contact and education by "attrition" which goes on in the dining halls, have been an attractive and a valuable feature of the Plan. Such activities and groups include formal dances, generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other...
Lowell House dining hall has been transformed to an uncharted shipwreck isle and will be the setting for the "Shipwreck Ball" which opens at 9.30 o'clock tonight. The committee has arranged for Larry Funk and his "Band of a Thousand Melodies" from the New York Palais d'Or to play for the dancing, while a girl who has been a member of several Broadway shows will sing with the band and help to make the shipwreck life more cheerful...