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...shining sky at Demcratic headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, there were still a few dark clouds. Lowest and blackest was the money cloud. With a deficit hanging over, Democratic credit was none too good. Twenty-five-thousand-dollar contributions like Mr. Raskob's and Vincent Astor's were few & far between. The idea of small gifts from "forgotten men" had not proved a success. One week lately it was all headquarters could do to meet its $5,000 payroll. The campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope of victory. Republican headquarters...
...Tilings That Are Caesar's, by Paul Vincent Carroll (new). An overbearing mother and a sensitive, frail father fight to the death over the choice of a husband for their psychopathic daughter...
Class of 1935 Caesari Lombardo Barber History of Wars of Charles XII Charles Edwin Carr Urry's Chaucer Philippe Dur Defee: Robinson Crusoe Maurice Franks Frost's Poems George Lee Haskins Everybody's Pepys John Joseph Hession Lowes: Road to Xanadu Robert Kramer Morison: Development of Harvard University Donald Vincent McGranahan Oxford Book of English Verse Thomas Burton O'Connor Thomson's Poems Leonard Raum Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Herbert Ellis Robbins Everybody's Boswell Edwin Marion Snell Johnson's Lives of the Poets Robert Wetmore Stoughton Shelley's Poems Arthur Wingate Todd Lemaitre: On the Margins...
...enter the Junior League, he has sat through innumerable suppers of scrambled eggs and sausages, he has worn many white ties, and seen countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed he, half born. All this he has done, and may say with the Prophet, "Lord, I have seen...
...Undergraduate Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious senior at Vassar College, finished a one-act play in verse. The Princess Marries the Page. It was her first play. While the rest of the U. S. was buckling into the machine that was to send A. E. F. divisions catapulting into France, seven Vassar girls were whispering and giggling over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast...