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...orders. Detachments would attempt to cross the river to Gloucester Point; and, if the crossing could be effected, all would follow and there await reinforcements from General Clinton. Towards midnight, the detachments attempted a crossing; but the storm had risen higher; and all returned to Yorktown, hopeless, with the dawn...
...fields, the brave and opulent lands of proud Virginia. All day it flew south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile of the only plant in the world which produces the helium that fills...
...have no point--all these things which puzzle the casual reader in search of fun, are quite in the Lampoon tradition. In short, the current issue of the Lampoon, to paraphrase an old howler stands with one foot in the past while with the other it salutes the rising dawn of the Fine Arts Department
Prior to that unprecedented step the heads of universities kept judiciously, if not scornfully, aloof from America's recurring leap year frolic, which happily taints few of the many it interests. The list of Honorary Vice Chairmen of the Davis College League, however, is fresh proof of the dawn...
PALLIETER ? Felix Timmermans ? Harper ($2.00). Bursting with healthy blood and full-blown appetites, Pallieter, simple, lighthearted Flemish farmer, wallows joyously in Life? snuffing its smells, slobbering over its flavors, smacking his thighs over its rich sensations. He swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke...