Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...Other Woman was Amelia Earhart, who once sold sausage-meat while Mabel was selling cigars, and who looks amazingly like Lindbergh. Stultz had decided to risk a trans-atlantic flight with Lady Lindy rather than with the Diamond Queen, perhaps because: Lady Lindy is tall, blue-gray of eye, curly of hair, while her rival is shorter, dark-eyed, vividly blonde. More probably because...
...segregated in one dormitory, but many of them engaged in campus athletics and extra-curriculum activities. They had their own dramatic club, which produced The Clouds of Aristophanes and Electro, of Euripides. Then, fraternizing their classical strides, the students adopted as the official uniform of the Experimental College a blue blazer with pearl grey trimming and with emblem of sacred Athenian owl. Many a Wisconsin's farmer's son twitted them for wearing it. The relations of the faculty and students were close-teas and chats being mentioned with enthusiasm. Some of the boys must have looked into...
...Mall" Goldman Overture to "Oberon" Weber Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Songs with Orchestra a. Pax et lux F. E. Dow '09 b. Victory Song W. N. Rose '12 c. Tuftonia's Days F. W. Hayes '16 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...Blue laws may have had-their origin with the Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made...