Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blast at the heebie-jeebies of suburban life, Ogden Nash serenely continues to steamroller the Muses to the delight of all spectators. His poetry, which has now come to represent a new genre of versification, is more rambling and full of humorous digressions than ever. As in his former books, he mutilates metre and rhythm with gusto, but here he is more successful in his butchery of poetic principle, for his creations are bristling with original, biting observations that have the reader chuckling at every line. Only infrequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps, into frequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps...
...emphasis is on German literature and those interested in the Philosophy of that country will find the material best covered in the Philosophy Department. The culture of Germany is ably and interestingly presented in German 1. A new professor, Dr. Snell, will come from Germany with a great reputation this fall, and should make German 1 an even more interesting survey of the literature than it has been in the past. It has not been hard...
Making an additional award of a Harvard honorary degree, the Metropolitan press last night reported that John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir and Governor General of Canada, will come here to be so distinguished Commencement...
From sessions of the nine undergraduate officers and 12 members of the Graduate Committee come pans for a new type of entertainment, "similar to a Fred Waring stage presentation." The emphasis will fall on original arrangements of Harvard songs and familiar semi-classical music for the Vocal Club, some to be sung with the God Coast Orchestra division. Opportunity awaits several good soloists...
Hague and Jersey City form a political curiosity which may be observed with scientific interest from afar; similarly, Huey Long's reign in Louisiana excited national attention. They are isolated cases, but when Mayor Hague's bullying methods spread to Newark, the time has come to view with alarm. Perhaps the growing emulation of Hague is nor surprising in view of Mr. Thomas's indictment of Governor Moore as "only Hague's Charlie McCarthy." In any, case the isolated curiosity must be checked before its "tyranny in the guise of patriotism" becomes a vogue in American municipalities. Just...