Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...
...rare, it is expensive (about $35 per 1,000 cu. ft.). It is found mixed with natural gas. Hitherto there have been but two chief U. S. helium sources: 1) the Federal well at Amarillo, Tex.,? which yields 1.75% of helium; 2) Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., which yields 2.4% of helium...
Under the terms of the Charles Dexter Scholarships seven students of English Literature, several of them instructors in the Department of English will be enabled to study and travel in England during the summer of 1929. They will visit Oxford and Cambridge Universities while there. The winners of these scholarships are: Warner G. Rice, Ph.D. '27. Instructor in English: Lawrence S. Wright, University of California '24, Instructor in English: Marston S. Balch, A.M. '25: Robert J. Allen, A.M. '28: Mark W. Eccles A.M. '28: Hyman T. Silverstein A.M. '27; Claude M. Newlin...
...Reverend Professor James Hardy Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8:45 o'clock this morning...
...transformed. They wear gay colors and spangles. They mince and prance and stick out their bosoms. The acrobats look flatfooted, the equestrians are bowlegged, the clowns act drunk. It is, of course, the circus, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus- never changing, except to become, as Press Agent Dexter Fellowes must repeat in his sleep, "bigger and better." This year many old favorites are back including Lillian Leitzel, pretty enough for Mr. Ziegfeld to glorify, who twists and turns on a rope; and Goliath, the sea elephant, who has gained exactly one ton since last seen by his adoring...