Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distant Drums. Scene of this eagerly written play is the old Oregon Trail. A wagon train of pioneers, finding itself behind schedule on the trek to the fertile fields of the Pacific, decides to take a short cut across the Idaho highlands. Most of the company are prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch...
...flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might follow...
...misspell the names of professors. Technicalities are not for the majestic corridors of his soul. Harvard was made for the Vagabond to do as he liked with, not the Vagabond for Harvard. If you gentlemen do not tread lightly likely as not he will pack up, and blaze a trail across the mountains to Beloit...
...tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over night. Young boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue. The world is quiet, and tranquil, and fair...
...mace was presented to the Harvard Law Review last April, by the Honorable J. M. Woolsey, United States District Judge of New York, and will be handled tonight according to the producer of common law courts. The three acting judge, who will preside at the trail are to be ushered in by a marshall...