Word: stragglers
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Tigre tribesmen apparently considered that the authority of Emperor Haile Selassie in their province had been shattered and that any of his soldiers not natives of Tigre were fair game. As an exhausted straggler would stumble into a village last week, angry spearmen would rush out to ask "Ane men? Who are you?" If the straggler answered in any Ethiopian tongue except the Tigrean dialect he was killed...
...another marches in to take up the burden, for while much is taken much still abides. Back Bay trails off to the Vincent Club where "us girls are getting up a show." The last straggler has returned to Cambridge in a belated effort to gird up his loins. Harvard's world has changed, it has gone to work. The Mid-years have advanced upon the Yard...
...refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler on the read at twilight while the heath embrowns itself against...
...with song in his heart. Paul Robeson, one-time (1918) all-American end, star basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene is tinged with black blood like his own, he forsakes the devious paths of Harlem, seeks...
...fulfillment of our dreams approaches. With a new brilliance will the lights of Cambridge shine. Soon we shall have a modern hostelry in our studious midst. Dimes will click less frequently in the Subway. Gone will be the familiar sight of the early morning straggler in the Waldorf, for in the future Hotel Harvard will receive with open arms the seeker of bright lights and jazz. University guests will no longer seek the doubtful convenience of staying in Boston and commuting to the Square. Cambridge, antiquated, solitary provincial, fades into the Cambridge of the future, a Metropolis sufficient unto itself...