Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Donald Wyman '20, Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum, there is no place like New England in the Fall. "Now England," he says, "is unusually fortunate in being located in one of the few regions of the earth where there is a brilliant Autumn color...
...Laski left Harvard under pressure following the Sacco-Vanzetti case? Laski was called to London in 1920, some time before the Sacco-Vanzetti case reached the headlines. Such "pressure" as may have hastened his departure was a result of his activities in the Boston police strike, in the autumn...
When a Londoner uses the word "Prom" he refers not to a college dance but to an extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur...
Under the shimmering, kaleidoscopic lights of Omaha's Coliseum, at Nebraska's 44th Coronation Ball of Ak-Sar-Ben*- the social high jinks of the State's big annual autumn festival-the 44th King of Ak-Sar-Ben (William Otto Swanson, ruddy-faced Omaha clothier), clothed in proud embarrassment and silks, was crowned, throned, cheered. Rich, rotund, charitable King Swanson had twice previously (1937, 1938) been decorated by the King of Sweden. Honoring France's liveliest cinemactor with the Legion of Honor, the French Government made him Chevalier Maurice Chevalier...
...first Bliss prize of $100 was won last year by Harold V. B. Cloveland '38 for the best appear among the twenty-five submitted in the contest under Plan I. This year, contestants under Plan I will be examined in the autumn and those under Plan II in the spring...