Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding a cut of the $500,000. "Our people are starving," they shouted. "Things are terrible. Give us our share or we will take...
...London and Manhattan auctions the 18th Century English portrait painters stood their customary ground as stolidly as oaks. But in U. S. sales of contemporary paintings, observers noted a significant difference. This year the French schools seem to be slipping in popular favor while a U. S. school, bent on portraying the U. S. scene, is coming to the fore...
...honors for the evening were snatched by Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35 as Falstaff, who shook and belched and toddled and fought and ran and swore his way through that bawdiest of parts King Henry, in the person of Roger W. Drury '36, was a stately and dignified monarch, bent on the suppression of rebellion, and on the reformation of his madcap son, Harry...
Robert S. Brookings, 2d. '35 as The Girl and Ernest A. Gray. Jr. '37 in the title role "Jim Bent, Deserter" have the leading parts. The cast follows...
Reader, John H. Hammond '37; Jim Bent Ernest A. Gray Jr. '37; Kane, Danbar Holmes '35; Mrs Schultz John H. Having '36; The Girl Robert S. Brookings 2d. '35; First Parsner, William Shelmerdine, Jr. '37; Second Pursuer William B. Bersscubrugge...