Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
Precise little mechanical steps grouped to suggest the scaffolding of the classic ballet, a circus girl teetering on a tight rope, a novice tempted by visions of earthly pleasures, a campus flapper inspired by John Held Jr.'s caricatures?of such varied and original material did Ruth Page create the Manhattan program. Particularly interesting were the Balinese impressions gathered from the recent visit there;* a dance called Sun-Worshippers showing a beach group in bathing suits against a backdrop of skyscrapers; blues done in crazy, geometric design...
This news will be a great relief to undergraduates who had visions yesterday of a gridiron covered with snow, and a mass of soggy turf tomorrow on which the Crimson would face the Bulldogs in the classic game of the season...
...against Michigan State's 1,878, Brown's 2,035, Indiana's 5.106, Syracuse's 7,546, Wisconsin's 11,893 and the mighty hordes oj Columbia. There are countless other cases. Princeton and Yale have passed the half-century mark in their traditional classic, but the Tiger, half the size of the Bulldog, has never asked odds...
...Crusaders in full armor mounted on a pair of thoroughly caparisoned, but not too fiery, chargers, will lead the Holy Cross baud into the Stadium this afternoon before the game. It will be the first appearance of genuine Crusaders in tin suits within the classic walls...