Word: calle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the hard-hitting W. W. Lord '28 was a power behind the bat but his graduation left the catching assignment wide open. In the scramble for the job three Sophomores have survived the competition and it is probable that of these Dudley will get the call on Saturday...
...producers of "All the Kings Men," which had its first appearance on the boards of the Hollis Street Theatre last night, did well to call it a "comedy drama." For that is just what it is, Believing, no doubt, the truth of the theory that at the theatre one never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
...said Cadet Aguirre, saluting. Mess call sounded, and Cadet Aguirre marched with his platoon into the dining room. Other cadets gazed round-eyed over their beef stew and cocoa at a classmate whose father had actually died in the profession for which they were training...
Potter Poor justifies his exacting process by showing that it necessitates brisk, simple design−''the subordination of technique"−and produces "depth and brilliance of color." The resulting ornaments−leaves, flowers, nude figures, abstract patterns−are so sketchy that the temptation is to call them naive. They are the simplification of form to only the essential contours, graceful and spontaneous. They are not precise and intricate geometry...
...Monday, when the market reopened, speculators were nervous−their biggest bugaboo, the Federal Reserve Board, was to meet that afternoon. The usual Monday morning rally, produced by the accumulation of buying-orders during the weekend, failed to come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial...