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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued a proclamation warning citizens not to give aid to Burr's plan. Shortly a detachment of Virginia militia raided and looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named Henry Clay. There followed the great Burr treason trial in the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond, with Chief Justice John Marshall presiding. Specific charge against Burr was that...
...Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively...
...found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, brilliant, cynical woman of 62, who gave him detailed advice on how to pursue charmers, was not shocked until he confessed his incestuous love for his sister. Byron also had a happier love affair with Lady Oxford, who was almost twice...
...wouldn't be so bad if Cambridge were an ordinary city, but it isn't. Living expenses are twice as high here as in Belmont, an average suburb. And whereas one may live modestly in New York for a monthly rent of $45, here in this comparatively tiny village there is no approach to such economy. The causes are two. First, there are the exceptionally high taxes. Second, there is the fact that so many houses and apartments of approximately the same standard are demanded that the owners are able to hold out for exorbitant prices...
...more than obvious to anyone who attended the meeting that Mr. Baldwin's speech was by far the outstanding event of the evening. Not only was he received enthusiastically as the featured speaker, but he had the most to say and said it the best. He received twice as much applause during and after his speech as any of the other men on the platform. Yet an innocent person reading the Crimson's article would get exactly the opposite impression. Mr. Baldwin was not mentioned in the headlines or lead, and was given only the last paragraph, some...