Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naughty Nineties." Oscar Wilde's brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate...
Seemingly unable to gain a favorable decision, the Harvard Debate Council lost its fourth straight debate last Friday afternoon in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Edwin J. Jacob '47 and Thomson McGowan of the V-12 were defeated by an all-feminine team from Clark University in Worcester...
Another attempt to break into the win column will be made by the Council this afternoon when Edwin J. Jacob '47 and Thomson McGowan of the V-12 engage a visiting team from Clark University at 4 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...Best Friend. In London, Solicitor George W. R. Thomson paid the magistrate's court ?461, a pound a day for each day he had spared his chow's life after the court ordered the dog killed, complained that the next ?343 might bankrupt...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...