Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium, who has been kept hidden in the house, and who has stolen out for a walk. They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister, who is ill, and the shock hastens Chrysis' death. Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once...
PROFESSOR BROOKE was fortunate in obtaining Mr. de la Mare as introducer to his collection of Shakespere's songs. It is not very often that scholar and poet walk so happily together, although one detects a certain timidity on the part of the latter. For instance, Mr. de la Mare immediately warns us that the songs were composed for dramatic and practical purposes. There is danger in scrap-booking them out of their context and the conditions that made and found them so luckily essential...
...weight events, Cornell has a decided edge. Frank Weiss, the Ithacan's 35-pound weight throw winner in 1929 is decidedly the favorite again this year, with Crosier of Dartmouth once more the probable second place winner. Lawrence Levy should place in this event and walk away with the shot put. Last year he did 45 feet, 6 inches, placing second to Anderson, who broke the meet record
...Manhattan, Francisco Boggiamo, 100, when bowled over by an automobile, arose, touched his toes with his hands, went home to shovel snow off the walk...
...Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down to a walk, perhaps stop altogether, look long and wonderingly...