Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with philosophic calm. The busses and street-cars are passing phantoms, but the bits of human nature that Sughrue observes are real and lasting. He likes to watch for each new crop of Radcliffe Freshmen and takes pride in his ability to spot the "belles dames" of the Fall Season. Progress is slow at first. The Freshmen stroll through the Square, alone and un-eyed. In a week or two Sughrue is quick to note the presence of an occasional escort. Sughrue swears that he has no personal interest in all these goings-on, but when the same couple begins...
Other provisions of the new "constitution" codify existing practices with regard to the financial organization of Freshman activities, and the choosing of a Red Book board. The Student Council Representatives, as at present, will pick a Red Book Chairman each fall, and he will in turn, subject to their approval, select a business manager. These two men will then fill other positions on the board by holding competitions...
...steeplechasing and riding to hounds. (He was once Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.) Between times he has thinned his hair, widened his girth by syndicate operations in a swivel chair. Still president of Standard Power & Light, he entered what he calls "the Aviation Corp. situation" in 1937. Last fall he strengthened his hold by a typical maneuver...
Herbert Gorman cannot resist trying to comment as well as to present, and his comments usually fall short of their subject. But because he has a good deal to present that has not been presented before, including several excellent photographs, his book is by no means without value...
WASHINGTON--Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...