Word: acted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Theodore C. Osborne '37, of the instrumental clubs, advertised for other players, accordion players, or players of any other instruments, or, in fact, one man who could sing a quartet or put on any specialty act...
Early one morning last week in the heart of London the bells of Southwark Cathedral clanged to commemorate a distinguished act by an otherwise undistinguished Southwark citizen named John Harvard. Across the Atlantic in Cambridge, Mass., great scholars from the earth's four corners joined in solemn procession to pay homage to the school that John Harvard helped to found. After 300 years Harvard was not only the oldest and richest university in the U. S. but also one of the world's brightest lamps of learning...
Then up to deliver the most solemn speech of his presidential career rose 43-year-old James Bryant Conant. "Such a gathering as this," he began, peering anxiously at the sky, "could come together only to commemorate an act of faith. . . . We commemorate today the daring hope of a group of determined men-a hope the fulfillment of which was long delayed; delayed, indeed, until the lifetime of many now present here this morning. . . . But the real past which we salute is but yesterday. ... It is toward the future of our common enterprise that on this occasion we must direct...
...them sells herself to her sensual boss, and although her condemnation is half facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets...
...player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking, how to act in the company of screen celebrities and the fundamental points of Bahaism...