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...time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard the S. S. President Wilson, was to marry Capt. F. A. Anderson of that vessel. Soon it was discovered, however, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh-Morrow | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...body moved with each stride, and gradually the round, blank silhouette again eclipsed the miniature skies through which she waded. Now her anger rose, and she splashed heavily through the water, shattering and dispersing its reflections. . . . The air about her broke into a shrill ominous whine, and a black cloud of mosquitoes enveloped her, settling like dust on head, shoulders, and legs. Involuntarily she struck out with both hands. With a heavy splash her burden fell from her back and commenced to settle slowly into the semifluid ooze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...dark. "Bright lights," he would say, "gimme de bright lights. So she dragged him to a dry knoll, wiped his eyes of the slime, then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field too often obscured by a cloud of technical detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TAYLOR LECTURES | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Theodore Hall, Jr. '30, of Cambridge, was elected president of the Advocate for the coming year at the annual board meeting last night, it was announced by the officers of the publication. Freeman Lewis '30, of St. Cloud, Minnesota was chosen secretary to the board at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate Elects | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

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