Word: hazelton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
...Marquis had not finished the novel before his death. He intended to have Jack break away go to New York, and perhaps to Europe to fight in the World War. When Don Marquis tried to follow Jack from Hazelton to New York, he was beaten. He could not go on, for to break away from Hazelton society in the last few chapters would certainly not be wholly satisfactory. "Sons of the Puritans", as it stands now, is more than satisfactory...
...Leverett House members of the House committee must stand for reelection in their Junior year, and at the last election Barnes and William H. Wright '38 were reelected. Two other Juniors were also elected for the first time. They are John C. Harkness '38 and Ernest D. Hazelton '38. Robert M. Coquillette '39 was the sole Sophomore added to the committee...
...Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...