Word: cherrington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drab is a girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course...
Died. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, 72, tireless prohibitionist, founder (1919) of the World League Against Alcoholism, onetime editor of Anti-Saloon League publications (The American Issue, The American Patriot); of cancer; in Worthington, Ohio...
...should like, without committing myself on the Cherrington-Mullins controversy, to express my opinion on an incident connected with that case. I am referring to the remarks made by Dean Bender in his History 61b lecture of this past Tuesday...