Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...periods. A. W. Kelsey 3G, and W. A. Robinson '31 put up an exciting match, and the latter's fine defense amounted to more than Kelsey's victory would indicate. The best bout of the evening was between P. N. Vonckx '31 and Nathaniel Warner '30 Vonckx, with a bad wrist, was forced to default after about six minutes, after a splendid exhibition of game wrestling, Coach Lewis refereed...
...than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however, by the very definite permanence which is assured men who succeed with the Company. Business depression and the subsequent unemployment probably affect the Telephone organization less than any other group, for in good times or in bad, the Telephone Company will do business. It is so much a part of our economic and social life that nothing short of a physical or social revolution would have any great effect on the business...
...toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle...
...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...
...crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play has been successful the rectangle play should be still more so, George Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been bad, but Mr. Rosener apparently wrote it with a sledgehammer, and the cast plays it through a megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief...