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Radcliffe bowed to Harvard in a spelling bee held Saturday afternoon over a National Broadcasting Company hook-up. The contest cannot be called official, since the Dean's office would not sanction a spelling team to go out under the University's banner before an audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE ORTHOGRAPHERS MEET DEFEAT TREMULOUSLY | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Lionel Barrymore as the remonstrating father of Duval is excellent, and as coldly logical as usual. The minors are carefully chosen, and reproduce the France of Louis Philippe in a lively manner. Notable scenes are Marguerite's first wild party and the animated bee-hiving expedition...

Author: By H. W., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with a mad bee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Retreat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Retreat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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