Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
...last two matches, however, the team has shown a decided improvement. The Purple team has lost to Dartmouth 6 to 3, to Yale 5 to 4, and to Princeton 8 to 1, but has defeated Pennsylvania 4 to 2. The Purple links men will play in the following order: Ward, one; Comstock, two; Captain Simmons, three; Hemphill, four; Brewster, five; Clark...
...Avenue Presbyterian Church for lectures and discussions. The speakers, who are all men of experience in the social field, will include Dr. H. S. Coffin, Mr. W. T. Diak, Mr. R. H. Edwards, Mr. J. A. Fitch, Dr. A. H. Gray, Dr. K. D. Miller, and Professor H. F. Ward...
...third wife, Lillian, married John Mayne to save Eamor for herself and Nicholas. Mayne and Lillian, never in much accord, soon separated, the latter remaining at Eamor with Nicholas. The situation was complicated by the sudden reappearance of Cosmo, the advent at Eamor of Madeline, Mayne's ward, and the interference of other conflicting characters...
...award of these prizes is one of the oldest institutions in the College, the Boylston prizes having been established 106 years ago by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, now held by Dean Briggs. The Lee Wade Prize was not instituted until 1915, when Dr. Francis Henry Wade established a fund in memory of his son, Lee Wade...