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Dramatically, the playwright had two strikes against him when he set out to follow the New England Pingrees, in three acts and on one set, from 1650 to 1933. Act I finds one Daniel Pingree about to be turned out of his rock-ribbed home because he has taken up with a wild young thing who lives in the woods. Act II presents another Daniel. He flees the homestead when the factories press too close, goes to California and makes good...
...following members of the Class of 1932 received the S.B. degree (Out of Course): G. N. Barrie, Jr., of Brookline, Mass; J. E. Davidson, Brookline, Mass.; J. V. N. Dorr, 2nd, New York, N. Y.; R. B. Johnston, Rock Falls, Ill.; J. J. Mackin, Jackson Heights, N. Y.; A. B. Poole, Abington, Mass.; E. H. Sterne, Jr., Cincinnati, O.; Francis Woodbridge, Jr., Portland...
Ambulances brought doctors and rescue workers from a dozen towns. Priests gave absolution and surgeons operated in the middle of the streets. One woman was dug from a rock pile that had been a house. "There were eight of us, drinking coffee," said she, and died. Others wandered about all night, calling. That night villagers miles away could still see the benzol plant flaming like a candle to the dead...
...Tokyo that this treasure exists, but such secrets are always well kept. To this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers of the Imperial General Staff...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...