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...farm finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will...
...Hollywood gives its standard expose of how college students live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or so close to the truth that they compel laughter. Enough in itself is the wild-eyed performance of John Barrymore as Gabby Harrigan, the governor with the Communist thatch, who makes political promises solely in order to brighten the voters' lives with anticipation. Framework for the picture's satiric thrusts is the story of an exotic senatorial campaign which is fought out by the opposing candidates' football teams, in which the Saturday afternoon crowds are the political rallies...
...fact that President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, C.I.O.'s best-heeled union, has threatened to walk out unless his attempts to conciliate C.I.O. and A.F.of L. succeed. All this was calculated to put grey streaks in Miner Lewis' big black thatch and to create jubilation in the heart of his onetime colleague, Miner William Green...
...surgeons. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., husband of the elder daughter of the elder Mayo Brother, was wearing cap & gown. Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan stood in evening dress. Suddenly with a great grin, Dr. Balfour took off his mortarboard, clapped it on the thin grey thatch of Dr. Pool. Thus playfully did Dr. Balfour symbolize the fact that he was passing on to Dr. Pool the presidency of the American College of Surgeons, convened before them for its annual meeting...
...year the blazing red thatch of Norman Ryan kept cropping up in a series of holdups and bank robberies throughout Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In 1924 he was trapped in the Minneapolis Post Office, extradited to Canada, sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. The flogging was later canceled...