Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Trygstad '52, class vice-president, will manage the St. Patrick's weekend events. The schedule includes a tea for senior sisters, two one-act plays which will be chosen next term, and the freshman dance Saturday night. The big weekend is a pro-war tradition...
...short plays will be chosen by a four-girl executive play committee, which was selected yesterday...
...Barry, the translator, has chosen to retain certain odd twists in the dialogue which tend to make the audience conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left...
...sponsored little major legislation, made few headlines, shown no notable talent for leadership. But he has toiled long & loyally for the Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary role and the use of a Cadillac limousine...
...Friction mounted last November. Students asked for a weekly paper, were told they could put out only one issue, at the end of the term. The paddlings continued and many were administered by Powell himself. Once when there was a disturbance in a study hall, four Negro children were chosen at random to be paddled in Powell's office. "They told us to bend over like when we pray," said one little girl. "I was sore about three days." Later, another child complained: "Mr. Powell whipped me with a paddle one inch thick." Three boys said they were made...