Word: stoddard
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...Typee" and "Omoo" were gateways to wonderland in our youth, opening upon a region "where every prospect pleases" and only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from...
...mounts have been furnished by L. E. Stoddard, a one-time international player and now a member of the international polo committee. Mr. Stoddard lives in New Haven and will doubtless assist in the coaching of the Yale polo team during the winter. He has provided twenty-one excellent mounts, which are now being trained at the armory...
...Stoddard B. Colby has withdrawn his name from the list of nominees for the Class Day Committee...
...return to prose and confess at once that "My Uncle Henry," with his "thin, pale face and faded blue eyes," his immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents...
Walter Henry Bieringer of Brighton, Theodore Vail Bullard of South Orleans, Stoddard Benham Colby of New York City, John Brooks Fenno Jr. of Boston, Arthur Dean Hamilton of Milton, Alexander McElwain of Cambridge, Charles Edward Masters of Newton Center and Thomas Crane Wales of Chestnut Hill...