Word: rivering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
While Poland was being erased from Europe's map, the Batory floated at anchor in the Hudson River off Yonkers. It was a restless berth for towering Captain Borkowski, frequently decorated hero of the last war, for 38 years a seaman...
Those who will be proctors in the Law School living quarters are Francis A. Goodhue, Jr. 3L., Hewlett, L.I., N.Y.; Harry W. henry, Jr. 2L., St. Louis, Mo.; Philip H. Irwin 2L., Fort Collins, Colo.; Ronald C. Rooschlaub 3L., Los Angeles, Calif.; Norman P. Seagrave 3L., Fall River, Mass.; and Ernest J. Zack 3L., St. Paul, Minn...
...Beard, Dan spent his boyhood in Cincinnati and Covington, Ky., was nicknamed "Buffalo" because of his infant virility. In those days pigs still cleaned the Cincinnati streets; Conestoga wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...
...when modern kids are only eligible to be Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...