Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that he is human...
...chaplain of the Tower has the smothered brothers carried across the courtyard to the White (because occasionally whitewashed) Tower and with a prayer has them buried under the winding staircase...
...Workmen, repairing the winding staircase of the White Tower, exhume some bones, throw them on a rubbish heap. Someone tells King Charles II, a sentimentalist, that the bones must be those of the murdered "Little Princes." He orders all the princely bones which can be recovered put in an urn. The sealed urn goes to Westminster Abbey to be kept with the dust of other English royalty...
...Green Bay Tree, Mary of Scotland, Men in White, The Dark Tower, Ten Minute Alibi...
...play, written by James W. Tower '35, is under the direction of Frederick deW. Bolman '35. Hugh K. McElheny '33 has composed the music incidental to the performance, including the overture, the Hitler march, the Hitler hymn, and the academic march. McElheny will also conduct the orchestra of 24 artists, a number of whom are from outside the House. The lyrics have been written by John P. Farquhar...