Word: riverae
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...Manhattan's Harlem one afternoon last week a dusky little Puerto Rican of 16 wandered past the cutlery counter in a Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
...dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding the League of Nations does him less credit than the remainder of his opinions...
Beautiful friendships which had withstood Diego Rivera, the Dartmouth Library, and Radio Center, were broken as the debaters took sides on a question which may--before all of its ramifications have been explored--assume international importance...
...Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...
...this year are the following courses given by Harvard men: "Money and Commercial Crises", by Felix I. Shaffer '25; "Recent Trends in American Government", by Payson S. Wild Jr., Instructor in Government; "Milton", by Philip W. Souers, instructor in English; Modern Spanish Novels and Plays", by Guillermo Rivera, assistant professor of Spanish; and "Cathedrals and Abbeys of Mediaeval Europe", by Kenneth J. Conant '15, associate professor of Architecture. Two other courses to be presented will be "Recent Developments in Drama", by Professor Joseph R. Taylor, of Boston University; "The History of England and the British Empire, 1689 to the Present...