Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trenches the nighttime is the worst. Daytime in a front line trench is often strangely quiet, soldiers can sleep, scratch, write letters, but with evening stand-to, and the first blue Very light that curves up into the sky comes a cold tightening of the nerves, a ceaseless dread...
...Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
...Seen in cold type the plot, besides ending up with a sagging anti-climax, contains such venerable stage devices as the arrival of an unexpected legacy just in time to save the furniture from ravening creditors. But under the capable handling of a cast headed by Janet Beecher it takes on a plausibility and conviction that makes the final impression eminently satisfactory. Miss Beecher has the inherently unsympathetic role of a widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them...
...least some of the hundreds of men who stood outside the Union yesterday afternoon while the cold northeaster trickled down their necks, must have felt that some simpler way of applying for football tickets might be devised. And it is not probable that their feelings would be much altered by the confusion and delay of the ticket office, which is hardly preferable to the weather outside. Granted that foresight would have brought them to the ticket office earlier in the week, human nature dictates that the vast majority will always put the matter off until the last minute...
...Bingham '16, and Coaches E. J. Brown '96, H. H. Haines, and F. R. Sullivan '27 will also speak at both meetings. The shells will be on the river as soon as possible in order to get the benefits of the short five weeks rowing season before cold weather sets...