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...Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Loyalists claimed that General Martinez Anido. Insurgent Minister for Public Order, had been stabbed. Rightist sources said he had influenza. At any rate he died. At 9 p.m. curfew was ordered in the Insurgent capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Case of the Dirty Shirt | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Goldcoasters will dance to the strains of transcribed music tomorrow night in an informal dance in the Lower Common Room. Festivities will begin at 8 o'clock and last until the usual 12 p.m. curfew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Eleven men and a girl are slated to aid the Deacons in making merry after the Chicago tilt this Saturday. Nye Mayhew will play from 9 until the State curfew rings at midnight, and there is a possibility that the decorations will be maroon. A feature of the dance will be the Kirkland House buffet, which gained considerable renown last year. The dance, which will be informal, is being managed by Thomas S. Galdwin '39, chairman of the Kirkland House Entertainment Committee, and William C. Hurtt '40 will act as head usher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Celebrate | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...desecrate those sacred precincts. In two days' operations nine Arabs were killed, no British. Arresting all men whose shoulders showed the bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request of the Moslem Supreme Council to permit 40 Arabs to attend the Friday noon prayers at the Mosque of Omar so that those services, held every Friday for centuries, would not be interrupted. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fall | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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