Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relay teams, a half miler, a hurdler, and a high jumper of the Varsity track team are entered in the Millrose Games in New York Saturday night...
...This term will be very busy. I can see that new. Harold wants me to go down to Maine some weekend, and I have got to spend a few days in New York; then, there is that house party at the Vineyard and I suppose the family will want me home several Sundays. No dean's list...
...29th. Both of us finished our second drafts today. "I'll be very disappointed if I get a '-' on the end of this "A." I told Harold, "I've given up the Vineyard, New York, and the family for Professor Bell and Herodotus." Harold nodded, but said nothing. He was silent all the way to class. For one hour he listened attentively to the professor's voice. Then he leaned over and whispered; "Say, Appleworth, let's see if we can take History 1 the second half-year...
Best-seller lists are compiled each week by the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune and The Publishers' Weekly. They give a clear picture of U. S. week-to-week buying of new books. But do they give an accurate indication of U. S. literary taste? Librarians (who hold that Mark Twain is still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky...
...diner has often wondered. Last week a waiter took off his uniform and tried to tell. What he had to say was disappointing. Thirty-year-old Dave Marlowe (real name: Arthur Timmens) has been a ship's steward on British and U. S. liners, a waiter in New York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward his main concern was with bootlegging and his amusements on shore. As a speak-easy...