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...door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady of Renaissance Italy so fair and mettlesome as this Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Phelps White, June 25, 1923; Phineas Shaw Sprague, to Lucy Carnegie, March 15, 1924; Ralph Grattan Tedford, to Gertrude B. Brown, June 11, 1922; Justin Young Wagy, to Bertha Louise Fisher, September, 1923; Henry Wheeler Jr., to Olga Merk, September 15, 1923; Carl Reimar Eugene Wohrman, to Elsa Edith Valeria Rokkanen, August...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAREERS OF SENIORS SHOW VARIED RANGE | 6/4/1924 | See Source »

...that it had worked at all. Speaking of the endowment, he said that the college which has any life in it will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like to look at the buildings. He said he should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

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