Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rube Goldberg, who draws the screwiest comic strips in the U. S. (Boob McNutt, Lala Palooza), and the stodgy New York Sun have one thing in common: conservatism in politics. Last week the Sun hired Rube as its political cartoonist, first one it has had in 18 years...
Bound together by their common passion for the courage of the gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
...tumble into the whacky farce world of a You Can't Take It With You. The last act wobbles all over the place. This is not miscalculation on Odets' part. It springs from a pretentious-side of him that wants to make every common dentist's office widen out into the universe. Sometimes he mistakes abracadabra for revelation...
Adams, Eliot and Leverett will be the scenes for Monday's meetings, which are being handled by A.W. Page, Jr. '40, R.A. Krancer '40, and L.F. Stowell '41. Luncheon table conversation will be followed by more formal discussion in the House common rooms. Austin Welch of the East Boston Social Center will be the guest speaker at Leverett; John Kingman '14 of Lincoln House will speak at Eliot, and Basil Beyea of the Family Welfare Society will held forth at the Gold Coast...
...certain student ably upheld Harvard's scholastic tradition on the radio at the Hayden Planetarium this last weekend. Asked what the common ingredients of glass were, he replied. "Silicon Dioxide!" The radio-interviewer in the quiz was so impressed with this sign of crudition that he awarded the Harvard man the prize, although the correct answer was and soda, and time...