Word: john
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Woodrow Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference on the S. S. George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller's authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships "whenever available." To make...
...edition of the John Eliot Indian Bible is one of the rarer specimens on exhibition, while nearby is a copy of "Old English Carols for Christmas" with Calligraphy by David Pottinger, who is the head of the University Press...
...Y.M.C.A. tank and have spoken favorably of him. In the 100-yard race he will be matched against Gordon Conolly, senior diving and junior indoor 220-yard free-style champion. George Shinney of the Boy's Club of Boston, indoor senior 220-yard free-style champion and record-holder, John Sheesher of the Central Y.M.C.A. of Springfield, and Martin Ford of the Brookline Swimming Club...
...Edwards '31. 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. Mr. DeWitt Stetten '30 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange Why Was I Born? Kern Gold Coast Orchestra Intermission--Ten Minutes 7. Ein Karleksmatt I Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah arr. by Bartholomew The Longshoreman Chesham Vocal Club 10. Dance of the Paper Dolls Tucker, Schuster, and Siras Medley of College Songs arr. by Rice Banjo Club 11. Fair Harvard Gilman Combined Clubs
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...