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...waste my life in wretchedness-?" Quarrels, tears, reconciliations followed. "How different is the Love of a Woman to that of a Man!" wrote Eugenia. Betsy looked on sympathetically, Fremantle less so. "I wish," he wrote Betsy about Eugenia's letters, "she could reason and communicate less in the stile of a Novelist." But finally the marriage took place, and everyone relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in Passage | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Freudianism: "He knew . . . that it is honest to rape an old woman but perverse to help her over a stile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Education of a Rich Boy | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...trying to get it in here for some time now that Weilepp is a married guy now. Several weeks ago we had all the details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/23/1943 | See Source »

Sawney was responsible for the school's famed, eccentric rules: no boy might climb a fence on the grounds unless he built a stile over it (there were stiles every 20 feet); a boy who pulled a leaf had to plant a new tree; boys might fight, but never before onlookers-spectators always got a thrashing from Sawney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brilliant Critic | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...changes of the last fifty years. The river came right up to what is now Winthrop House, and in its place were rows of docks and the barges of the Baker Coal Company. Horse car and tracks went as far as the Harvard Trust building and turned round a stile on its present site. A stable occupied the Georgian's land on Dunster Street. Max Keezer played a pretty important part in the history of this land at one point. When Charley Smith owner of the Georgian was considering buying the property for $100,000, he asked Keezer whether...

Author: By L. L., | Title: Circling the Square | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

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