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Except for these moments of excitement, the rally was a disappointment to all but the most besotted Harvards. So small in number was the gathering, in fact, that even Coach Harlow did not appear.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Turns Out Vociferous Few | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

No one was quite sure how the battle of the bass drum began . . . . but it ended with a three-wheeled drum carriage and a bruised Blue . . . . quick action saved the day for the drum, and it rolled on the field again just in time to join the half-time serenade...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Raccoons, Crowds, Bottles Feature Lushest Yale Gathering of Decade | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Into the two brief acts of the play Synge has packed all the gaiety and excitement and superstitious poetry of the Irish peasant, in the same way that has made his "Playboy" a modern classic. And the Idler cast's performances go completely beyond the amateur level. It is difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/11/1946 | See Source »

The more she thought about it, the bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Loony? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Robert Ley, the besotted labor chief, feebly paraphrased Churchill and Clemenceau: "We will fight in front of Berlin, in Berlin, behind Berlin!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Man Who Can't Surrender | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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