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Word: doned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...function of House dances is not to provide copy for Boston gossip columns nor to compete with Boston night clubs. It is to create throughout the year an inexpensive and congenial social season for House members and their friends. This can best be done by limiting the size and cost of dances and possibly increasing their number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANCING IN THE RED | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

Larry Clinton and his Dipsy Doodlers played a one nighter at the Roseland Tuesday. All that can be done about it is to wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry has done much to explode this theory in his lectures in the Lowell Institute published in book form under the name of Strangers and Pilgrims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Union itself has earned the genuine respect of the University not so much by what it has said as by what it has actually done. Literary essays on the personal experiences of undergraduates in social work, labor relations, and political life would find many interested readers. A final note: the staff caricaturists and poets should be compelled to exchange functions...

Author: By David Worcester, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...exhibition of Lewis Rubenstein '30, in Leverett House is the newest addition to House personality and a very worthy one. It includes pastel studies for his Germanic murals, a few wash drawings, and some painstaking water colors, most of which are done in gouache. If the exhibition seems a sketchy presentation of Mr. Rubenstein, it is only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

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