Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally classic to remark about the dancing of Miss Moss. But, as the foreman of the pressroom, has just...
...Freshman Class responded unusually well to the call for candidates in September. Some '25 experienced and 175 unexperienced men reported. The latter began in the Leviathan at once, thereby eliminating the drabness of machine, work, and were soon placed in barges under the direction of Coach Halnes. These men culminated their fall rowing with an, interdormitory race on November...
...winter schedules for the University Freshman track teams call for four major meets each, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. For two of these, the University squad will go to New York, while all the remaining meets will take place in Boston...
Have you read John Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
...have made Jeritza. She wanted to be a prima donna. She is a prima donna and nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when it was over she could...