Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy of his talents...
...file so simple a document as a questionnaire or registration card realizes that a fairly large number of men make mistakes even on that. Still greater, then, is the chance of a goodly number of undergraduates misreading so long a statement. On the score of frankness, a bit less hocus-pocus about "not reporting absences" and a little more frankness about "permitting cuts" would add to the force of the document without changing the action of the students...
...President leave. As he drove along Mt. Auburn .Street I slipped by two or three cops and was beside his car-so near in fact that I could easily have grabbed his hat which he waved out of the window of his car. Without the slightest bit of trouble I could have jumped on the running board of the auto and assassinated Mr. Roosevelt. It was not until we reached the corner of Boylston Street, a distance of several hundred yards, that I was apprehended...
This state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...
...side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage and have had their...