Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play is laid in Cambridge and Northampton, and deals, among other things, with the House Plan. One of the main features of the play is the music, which was written by Graham Macleod '32, Charles Watson '29, E. B. Murphy '31, and Sturtevant Burr '31. There will be more music in the play this year than ever before, according to Bachrach, due to an increased interest in the composing...
Engaged. Jane, daughter of President T. George Lee of Armour & Co.; to William Edward Graham of Chicago; in Chicago...
...absorbed by the prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went to the Telegram three...
Technically the book is badly, constructed. Graham begins with a chapter on what he calls "the event" viewed in the perspective of the present day. He then carries the reader back five centuries to set his stage and to create a semblance of atmosphere. The final half of the book deals with the assassination and its immediate results to the individuals involved. This rather chaotic plan allows little direct sequence or coherence in a situation which demands clarity and unity above all things...
...anyone is genuinely interested in the period a more accurate and more vital account may be found in the second volume of "The Origins of the World War" by Professor Fay. While it may lack some of the intimate details of Graham's work it possesses a strength and drama which only reality can create...