Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk droned: "Nicola Sacco, have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" In the prisoners' box, a clean-shaven Italian, with a high forehead and a son named Dante, stood up. "Yes, sir, I, I am not an orator," said Nicola Sacco. "It is not very familiar with me, the English language. . . . I never know, never heard, even read in history anything so cruel as this court. . . . My comrade, the kind man, the kind...
...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
...Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library now rises as a testimonial to a victim of that fatal voyage. Dominating the Yard, it stands as a mute but forceful tribute to two very sacred ideals: the memory of a son, and the love of good books. Within its walls are stored the volumes which that man loved and though its portals pass the feet of others who share his reverence and who week what he sought. It is not a mausoleum: It is the expression of an undying spirit...
There is one case of Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...
Speaking for the Lee Wade and Boylston, Prizes in Sanders Theatre last night, A. F. Reel '28 won the first prize of the evening, the Lee Wade Prize, given by Dr. F. H. Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade 2nd '14. His recitation was, "On Retaining the Philippine Islands" by G. F. Hoar...