Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Class Secretary has charge of the year book and other important duties. The two men of the Class Committee organize the class reunions. The Class Day Committee, which has seven men, takes care of the festivities of Class Day. The Album Committee, with five men, edits the Class Album. The offices of Class Secretary and Class Committee are permanent...
Pach in his recent book states, "Glancing through the rotogravure supplement of the paper and enjoying the photographs of swimmers, statesmen and stage-dancers, one's eye was caught by the big flag, and one idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant...
Caponsacchi, the Arthur Goodrich-Rose Palmer dramatization of The Ring and the Book, by Robert Browning, which Walter Hampden played to cheers last year, he revived last week, as ably as ever...
Rainbow. The movements and the moods of Laurence Stallings are mysterious to contemplate. He wrote Plumes, a good and savage book. He wrote, with Maxwell Anderson, What Price Glory, a strong though over-rated play. Then he played with the moving pictures and the result was The Big Parade. When in Manhattan, he lives at odd hours in an inconspicuous apartment house and it was during his odd hours in the apartment house that he wrote, with Oscar Hammerstein II, Rainbow, a musical play which contains a mule and a catchy song called "I Like...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...