Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal...
This production will be directed by G. W. Harrington '30, who also had charge of the "Dublin Cycle" last year Tryouts for the cast of the production will be announced later...
...Philosophy granted to students doing special research? The intention can scarcely be to attempt to offset Yale's football victory over Princeton. What are Doctors of Philosophy compared with makers of touchdowns? There would seem to be danger that magnifying merely scholastic news may tend to throw the pale cast of thought over the team when it goes to meet Harvard...
...James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People don't resent graft any more...
Probably Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...