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They stood in silent admiration for several minutes, their eyes sweeping the large room, and then gathered for a brief, hardly audible discussion. "And just to think," one Yardling intoned to his companion, not unlike stout Balboa, upon a peak at Darien, "all those fellows are Harvard...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, 77, owner-editor of the low-church Protestant Episcopal monthly, The Chronicle, stout opponent of Anglo-Catholic influences within the Episcopal Church; in Poughkeepsie...
...that Lowells talk only to Cabots; they have also apparently talked freely to Ferris Greenslet, former Houghton Mifflin editor-in-chief, and granted him permission to quote from family letters and papers. The, result is a short history of ten Lowell generations, down to and including that of the stout, imperious maiden lady who admired Keats and smoked long Manila cigars...
...appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
Died. James Clark McReynolds, 84, grim, gruff, retired former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (1914-41), trustbusting Assistant Attorney General under Theodore Roosevelt (1903-07) and Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson (1913-14), stout opponent of the New Deal and its freewheeling constitutional interpretations; of a gastrointestinal condition; in Washington...