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...this vision of loveliness. What was she doing here? Was she a part of the diabolical plot against Drummond or had she too been caught in this hideous trap? What was this mysterious engine of death? My heart stood still!" Next week, "East Lynn...
...power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began to say that Bulgaria would be better off without Tsar Boris. Last week in Sofia the Tsar's police uncovered a vast plot to overthrow the Government and perhaps to assassinate the little Tsar, his Italian Queen or both...
...Harvard is looked to as one of the staunchest strongholds of collegiate liberalism. But a university can be no more liberal than its president, so there must be some plot hatching in President Conant's scientific head which will prevent this law from suppressing freedom of speech and criticism among Harvard's illustrious and highly-paid faculty. Things like that happen in poor, benighted state universities, but are impossible in great and tolerant Harvard. The Daily Dartmouth
Last week ambitious Editor Powell's trajectory described a curve he did not plot-a precipitate and sudden return to zero. Back from a vacation in the Caribbean, he found himself fired without notice, his place taken by a onetime Unitarian minister named Ludwig Denny. To the Times staff, Scripps-Howard's Executive Editor John Sorrells explained that Editor Powell had "resigned." To Editor Powell he explained that he was "temperamentally and philosophically unsuited" for the job. Editor Powell agreed...
...plot of the "Mostellaria" deals with the adventures of Philolaches, scapegoat son of a rich Athenian. In his father's absence the young man has borrowed money to free the slave girl Philematium in whose honor he has decided to give a little entertainment for his friends...