Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel Authoress Baum, a literary midwife adept at helping her characters give birth to what she intimates are their souls, turns in a good job of soul-saving midwifery. Only after her hero has gone through highly sensational throes does she ease him with a dose of religio-romantic twilight sleep. The tale of his agonizings, told with a dramatic flair, will make a better movie than it does a book, as was probably intended...
...mile farther down. The fourth mile of the race, from the bridge to the finish, was really a race between three crews for second place. The California shell crossed the line first in 19 minutes and 55 seconds. The men in it, leaning on their oars in the calm twilight, saw Cornell stroked by Bob Wilson whose boat won in 1930, sweep across the line second by 2½ lengths. Washington was third with Navy fourth. Syracuse fifth and the others? Columbia, Penn, and M. I. T.?strung out far behind along the river...
...tell it to their heirs." With them they take away an education, a sheaf of memories, and the name of Harvard. They have obtained more than they can ever give. They have seen the cabs drive up in an October fog to the Somerset, they have seen Sever in twilight, they have heard great men, they have wandered home at night arm and arm singing, they have spent money, and danced and drank, and studied. They have called on the Dean, they have said, "Oh, yes, I go to Harvard." They have laughed at Williams men on the Century after...
...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
...take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude." Twilight comes in on silver feet, and the Vagabond, in mellower mood, has a kindly thought even for the penny-a-liners...