Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...remains to all time, a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who ages ago felt and suffered and renounced. In the cloister; perhaps, with serge gown and tonsored head, with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent, far off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same stirrings, the same failures, the same weariness."--George Eliot. 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London. Published at $2.50. Special price...
Many of the "he-men" differ with the Committee, so that even the men are not united in their defense; which dissension within leads us of the far east, where all is solid and conservative, to fear for the safety of our brother in Ithaca. It is a troublesome year, and Cornell is not the only victim of the march of modern women. Would that the strife were over, and with the news of peace a word that Cornell had been saved for mankind...
...domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from all but his mother and sister. One brother, David, has become a meek and cringing rector, while George, the other, is a Conservative candidate for Parliament; both represent the views and ambitions of his father. The horror of the family reaches a climax upon the discovery that Brother William had adopted the career of a prize-fighter...
Stinson, Princeton center forward, whose brother played end on the football team yesterday, was the individual star for the visitors. His speed and clever footwork enabled him to score four of the five goals made by his team...
...present no one figure upon whom the nation seems likely to unite. Instead, there are three main factions, each of which has been intriguing in the principal courts of Europe ever since the king became ill. There is the party of Prince George and that of Prince Paul, both brothers of the late king; as well as a group who favor Prince Andrew, uncle of Alexander, and brother to the deposed Constantine. Besides these there is also the very powerful group who have never lost hope of restoring that exiled monarch. The situation is further complicated by the fact that...