Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage show this week takes on the character of a Continental revue and is quite varied in content. Dancers, comedians, a magician, and a screen star, make an entertaining revue. Margo, the star of Crime Without Passion, and Rumba is featured...
...content with winning his numerals in hockey this winter, Don Sleeper is proving his versatility by taking Cunningham's place in the 115-pound division. The loss of Joe Nee necessitates shifting Wysocki up to 175 pounds and filling his place with Eddie Davis, football captain and wrestler at Milton last year, Davis boxed his first intercollegiate match against Dartmouth intramural champions two weeks ago, and put his man away with a technical knockout. Sherlock. Ellis, and Oakes will remain in their present classes, and Whitney, who showed his possibilities against Staunton, is again taking his place at 135 pounds...
Primarily, it is because this group has several other definitions for inflation than printing press inflation. Reducing the gold content of the dollar, unbalanced budgets and relief program projects necessitating millions of dollars worth of government bonds might be called inflationary by these lunatics. They might even see in President Roosevelt's new plaything, five billion dollars, means of making a currency uneasy...
...being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland. He had to content himself with taking two of the boss spy's poor little stoogettes, chopping off their heads. . . . This barbarity seems to indicate that Hitler has become a hater of women, a persecutor of them...
Berlin was only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came...