Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Burke is one of the few men in Cambridge who can tell a woman off and get away with it. Patrolman Burke puts in more than ten hours each weekday in publicly villifying errant drivers, jay-walkers, and absent-minded pedestrians from his green-painted booth in Harvard Square, and gets considerable pleasure out of this. "There is no doubt," claims Burke, "that women are much worse drivers than men. They spend all their time lookin' around at things, and none of it lookin' at the road. And when they have some one else in the car with...
Radcliffe students can get a head start on Christmas shopping this year at a special Christmas gift booth sponsored and manned by the agents of Radcliffe's 70th Anniversary Fund Drive...
Benefits of the booth work two ways: students have a large assortment of gifts at their convenience, and all profits go to the 70th Anniversary Fund...
Star items offered at the booth are assorted candies and nylons--available in two shades. Girls may also purchase such things as Radcliffe calendars, playing cards, Annex cookbooks and song books, and stationery. Committee members are also selling Christmas cards in the dormitories...
...that the Met hadn't really changed its ways. The opening storm music that the Met's best conductor, Fritz Busch, whipped out of his pit orchestra was only faintly furious. Tenor Vinay sang powerfully, and what top notes he couldn't sing he shouted. But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung the role of lago...