Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad farce portraying the woes of an unmarried father with a child on his hands. "Little Accident" is still, after many months, doing big business. And so also is that finest of mystery plays Milne's "The Perfect Alibi". Hoboken offers two revived melodramas, quite the fashionable thing to attend, and there is another resurrected thriller down on the Bowery. Just arrived in town are Drinkwater's latest play. "Bird in Hand", "Mystery Square", a dramatization of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" and a farce, "He Walked in Her Sleep...
...Alcock '29, weights; P. S. Brown '30, high jump; S. E. Brown '31, javelin; F. E. Cummings '31, dashes; W. M. Dow '29, broad jump; Leslie Flaksman '29, distances; A. E. French '29, dashes; David Guarnaccia '29, weights; T. F. Mason '30, dashes; T. G. Moore '29, javelin; R. H. O'Connell '30, hurdles; R. P. Porter '29, distances; J. W. Potter '30, weights; J. L. Reid '29, distances; G. W. Smith 3E.S., distances; G. A. Tupper '29, hurdles, and J. O. Wildes '29, distances...
...large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost a commonplace in the academic life of such an institution as is Harvard where not only many courses as for example, Biology A, but ultimately the tutorial system itself are designed...
...Frelsers Kirke. Norwegian radio men had hooked up in Oslo quite as many microphones as were used in Washington when Herbert Clark Hoover said, "I do" (TIME, March 11). Several announcers were posted in and about the Slot, more along broad Karl Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
...Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors fall into too-broad burlesque. Moreover, the producers have" sought to modernize the script here and there, and for the Amazons who marched their hourglass figures before the oglers of 1866, have been substituted some more or less fleshless girls of the 1929 model...