Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower. 25 February...
...sacking of the Dunster Funsters' broadcasting studio in Lowell House: At the first peals of Dunster's bells, coincident with the Fly Club's winter dinner, Colonel Apted set out upon the most methodical search of each room of the Tower entry of Lowell House, seeking the transmitting center. After some fifteen minutes his quest led him to the fifth floor suite, wherein lay his blatant quarry...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
Thence, about the Square, here and there, and by and by to the Tower, where weary with happy work I to play my grama phone a while to rest myself. But not for long for I did note an exhibition of Lewis Carroll's works be at the Widener Treasure Room. So I to Widener, and, bless my soul, did there catch a little girl reciting...
PREFACE TO THE PAST - James Branch Cabell - Me Bride ($2.50). Story of his literary life, mostly made up of revised prefaces to his collected works, by an ageing tenant of an ivory tower...