Word: julia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legendary character of the old South, all chivalresque, julepy and magnolious, is still stoutly upheld by such loyal romanticists as Stark Young and Julia Peterkin, but its present reputation has been considerably damaged by the nightmare realism of William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Author Caldwell, particularly, has been almost wholly concerned with telling tales on a part of the South no Southerner ever boasts of-the poor white trash that clutters the South's backyards. Often he makes his tattered crackers the scarecrow-heroes of wildly ribald yarns, but almost as often they appear as the victims...
Miss Brico will say little about the individual players because "all the ladies are jealous." But a few were conspicuous for their labors last week. There was young Julia Drumm who played capably on the flute; wiry Jeannette Scheerer who understands a clarinet; Tympanist Muriel Watson who practices on boards at home because she has no drums of her own; slender Maxine Scott who wrapped a tuba over her shoulder and puffed manfully through a Wagner finale...
SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE - Laura E. Richards - Appleton-Century ($2.50). Filial biography of Julia Ward Howe's husband, by the 85-year-old author of Captain January (middleaged onetime youngsters will remember...
During his Presidential term (1841-45) sturdy, self-willed John Tyler lost his first wife and, at 54, married 22-year-old Julia Gardiner, a Roman Catholic. To this union, when John Tyler was 63, was born Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Another son was born four years later...
Thomas Harrison Hunter '35, and Cesar Lombardi Barber '35 have been awarded a *500 Henry Fellowship to study at Cambridge University, England, and George Lee Haskins '35 will receive a similar award for study at Oxford. The Henry Fund was founded by the will of the late Lady Julia Henry...