Word: calf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of their new policy inaugurated last spring the Harvard Dramatic Club has issued a calf for plays by undergraduates in the University. Under the new plan the club is to present this year the work of some undergraduate writer. All men who are desirous of presenting plays to the club for examination should call at 50 Claverly Hall before 5 o'clock this afternoon...
...modern allegory. But it somehow seems hollow, even beside that garish venture. The story of the Prodigal Son is the specific parable employed. The characters are chiefly impersonated by William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen. There is plenty of sex and a practically uninterrupted killing of the fatted calf. The Wanderer will probably be popular...
...lonely, weak, little boy. Caught in a mutual investigation party with a tough little girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot...
...another generation it was Grimaldi who "caused Judah to skip like a calf" from merriment, who made Europe rock with laughter. When, at the height of his career, he was seized with a terrible malady which developed into melancholia he sought advice from a London physician. "See Grimaldi and learn how to laugh", he was told. "Alas, I cannot, for I am Grimaldi...
Famed Elks present: Timothy McCarthy, 'Charles Grakelow, George Dunham, Daniel Kane, Rev. John Dysart, John Knapp, John O'Brien, Captain Albert Sampson, aged 93 (oldest Elk), tiny spotted calf from Norumbega Park Zoo (youngest...