Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full justice to the character, the part of Sir Tremendous will be taken by a prominent member of the Faculty, Andre Morize, professor of French Literature. Edward A. Whitney '17, associate professor of History and Literature, and Huntington Brown '22, instructor of English, are directing the production...
...Miller saw Hnri Désiré ("Bluebeard") Landru guillotined in a Versailles street for butchering ten women and a boy. When the warders flung the murderer on the machine, part of the platform collapsed, but they managed to clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller...
Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...
...long era of peace and commercial prosperity enjoyed by England under Sir Robert Walpole's administration is still regarded by social historians, as it was then by the Whig poets, as England's happiest age. The national min, always dominantly utilitarian, surveyed with satisfaction the concrete results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing...
...tomorrow to learn more about a favorite. Professor Murdock, at nine in Harvard 2--English 30--on "Sir Thomas Browne". What Song the Syrens sang...