Word: barre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
...etchings of Otto Dix which were put on public exhibition this week. Otto Dix is a skilful German draughtsman who served in the War, remembered it bitterly. Visitors turned away from some of his clinical dissections of haphazard horrors, unaware that in an upstairs office Museum Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had concealed other Dix drawings considered too strong for public exhibition...
...DeAngelis, both speedy, a distinct advantage in the Eli attack. Webb Davis, Dick Crampton, and Ben Grosscup leave the Eli coach well equipped with guard material. At center there is Vic Malin, 240-pound Senior, who has seen service all through college, and he is backed up by Dick Barr, pivot on last year's yearlings...
Grays 4: James Barr Ames '32, of Wayland, Mass., magna cum laude, former CRIMSON editor and Secretary of the Student Council, who enters the Harvard Law School...
...discussions of codes and recovery, the President found time to complete the reorganization of his Latin American diplomatic corps. As Minister to Paraguay he appointed Indiana's Author Meredith Nicholson, 67. Member of the Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been...