Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago Progressive Education was a tiny and, in many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a public-school affair. Progressive Education has strongholds in the suburbs of greater New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, is transforming such major public school systems as those of Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit. No U. S. school has completely escaped its influence...
Knights of Song (by Glendon Allvine; produced by Laurence Schwab) is a musical show about the most famous of musical showmen, Gilbert & Sullivan. Besides providing a chance to go to town with their music, a play about them has comic and dramatic opportunities: Sullivan's long love affair with married, U. S.-born Cynthia Bradley; the violent wrangling between the two collaborators, who could not work peaceably together nor successfully apart; Queen Victoria's affection for genial, diplomatic Sullivan (John Moore), whom she knighted in 1883; her aversion to jealous, crusty Gilbert (Nigel Bruce), whom it was left...
...case, Princeton will undoubtedly hear a little of the emittings of the Cage, for a gala program has been drawn up. The affair will start immediately upon the conclusion of the J. V. Tiger game at 4:30 o'clock. Members of the football team, cheerleaders, and a sizeable proportion of the band will be on the balcony, so that "waking up the echoes" should not be too difficult...
...Eliot eleven still staggering from the effects of a 26-0 beating from Adams last Friday was massacred again yesterday on Soldiers Field by a title bound Winthrop team by an even larger score, 28-0. A comparatively bloodless affair was the Dadley-Dunster game on the neighboring field, won by the Commuters 6-0, for their second straight victory...
Presidents Conant and Dodds of the two Universities head the list of speakers at the affair, with William J. Bingham and Burnham Dell, Directors of Athletics at Harvard and Princeton also scheduled to exchange notes...