Plays at PlumfieldAs it is as impossible for the humble historian of the March family to write a story without theatricals in it as for our dear Miss Yonge to get on with less than twelve or…
by Robert Frost Now Close the WindowsOctoberA Line-storm Song It is the autumnal mood with a difference. THE line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day,…
FOX Jon D. , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Abington Township,
Montgomery County, Pa., April 22, 1947; graduated Cheltenham High School,
Wyncote, Pa., 1965; B.A., Pennsylvania State…
Aslauga's KnightIt was curious to see the change which came over Dan after that talk. A weight seemed off his mind; and though the old impetuous spirit flashed out at times, he seemed intent…
Anaxagoras, on his death-bed, being asked what honour should be conferred upon him, replied, “Give the boys a holiday.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Give…
(Encyclopedia) Otterburn, village, Northumberland, N England. It was the scene of a victory (1388) of the Scots over the English. The engagement, in which Sir Henry Percy was taken captive, is the…
(Encyclopedia) Kent, Rockwell, 1882–1971, American painter, muralist, wood engraver, lithographer, book and magazine illustrator, and writer, b. Tarrytown, N.Y. Kent studied with William Merritt…
A school where boys were taken in and done for by a Mr. Squeers, a puffing, ignorant, over-bearing brute, who starved them and taught them nothing. (Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby.) It is…
