Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William G. Kirby '35, president of the Glee Club, will lead about 100 members tonight on Widener steps in the second of a series of three Yard concerts. As usual, the singing will begin at 7 o'clock...
...hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass production, unequal distribution of wealth, his mail reached new peaks-at times 1,000,000 letters per week. With it came cash, cash, cash- more than enough to pay large radio bills, to begin erection of a $1,000,000 church with a 150-ft. cruciform tower to be Priest Coughlin's haven...
...only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight in a valley in Tibet. Taken in small doses, the juice of the mariphasa will arrest lycanthropy temporarily. The Werewolf of London is a nasty little fantasy showing what happens when two werewolves begin squabbling between themselves in order to gain possession of the only mariphasa plant in London...
...dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...
Questions. Knuckling down to cases, the nine old gentlemen on the bench began to ask questions with the amused detachment of sages from the moon. To begin with, they wanted to know all about the chicken business. Justice Sutherland was told that in "straight killing" the customer buys the contents of a crate sight unseen. If a customer wants a half crate, "you just break the box in half...