Word: civile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President James Phinney Baxter III, of Williams College, former Master of Adams House, will start a series of lectures on "Anglo-American Relations Since the Civil War," during the first week of November...
Today they will all be fought out--the Civil War, the assault on monopolies, the clash of have's and have-not's--when the Chicago Cubs dare to meet the New York Yankees. As in the 60's, "Gin'ral" Lee, ace pitcher of the underdog National League club, will try to stop the "Damnyankees." That the Yankees are a monopolistic and "have" organization cannot be disputed, since they comprise one of the highest-salaried teams in baseball and own a farm system that makes them look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle...
There is one good reason why ball-minded Harvard men will be cheering for the underdog this time, despite their stand in the last Civil War. It is not because the owner of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint was rich enough to buy a sore-armed Dizzy Dean; not because of Big Bill Lee, the speed-baller with the movie profile. Both of these have shown fight--Dean, whose fast ball has passed on and who now pitches with his heart; Lee, who took the mound on four out of five days during the pennant spurt. Rather it is because...
...cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs, a book of 87 pictures by Evans, and honored him with its first one-man show of photography...
When finally forced to get serious by a question from the group as to his views on the need for extending the civil service, Curley said, "A college boy hasn't a chance today. There are more college graduates loafing than laborers. We ought to do something for them...