Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heretofore been the accompaniment of a Harvard Education: to wit 17, 16, or 15 courses, daily attendance at classes, and the inevitable hour exams are recognized as undesirable and unnecessary. Now if the Dean and the President can only get together, and do something about it, Harvard may blossom forth and regain its place as a center of culture and learning instead of its present unenviable degree-factory characteristics...
...years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites...
...cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
...gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate's day was done when Vice President Dudley S. Blossom stepped forward and said he would be the big backer. Conductor Sokoloffs contract was not renewed. Mrs. Hughes's resignation was accepted. She was set to handing out routine publicity notices. Two guest conductors were tried out: England's Sir Hamilton Harty and Artur Rodzinski, the wavy-haired...
AmherstL Shields, g,; Winston, r.f.b.; Maynard Blossom, l.f.b.; Abererombie, Lewis, r.h.b.; Klaer, r.e.f.; Grose, Mahoney, r.i.f.; Nelson, c.f.; Davidson. Smith, l.i.f.; Allis, Clark, l.e.f...