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...Harvard Dramatic Club has had the misfortune to be denied the right to a Policy by yesterday's CRIMSON. Hereafter it is to drift on the sea of available plays without a rudder, governed in its choice of a production now by its set-designers, now by its stage crew, chiefly by chance. Apparently it may have no lasting standards or continuity of purpose, but must be reborn for each performance...
...Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, he has a name and a talent which might work political magic in his State. But Brother Phil, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, short-time District Attorney of Dane County, whirlwind campaigner for Brother Bob, was in no hurry. He silenced "drift talk," insisted he was "too young" (he is now 33), kept Progressive leaders waiting for his services (TIME...
Significance of this consolidation lies: in the extended influence of Electric Bond & Share; in the drift of the natural gas business away from its petroleum and toward its public utility affiliations; in the probable status of the newly formed company as the first of many far-reaching consolidations which should ultimately create a super-gas situation comparable to the already existing super-power systems in the electric field...
...this book, two young bums, Blink Thomas and Author Tully, drift into "a scrawny town in a Western state." When they unhappily encounter a railroad detective, noted for his extreme lack of sympathy with bums, their troubles recommence. After eluding the detective they stumble into a "sapping day"-a roundup of hoboes by embattled farmers-are forced to run the gauntlet, finally escape to a deserted "jungle" and fall exhaustedly to sleep, only to wake in the arms of the police. A heartless judge gives them each 120 days in the county jail...
Death Takes a Holiday. Evening shadows drift across the estate of Duke Lambert, though there are no clouds to cause them. Darkly they invade the great hall of the castle, where a shrouded figure in their midst disturbs the midnight ruminations of the duke. The visitor is Death, come to arrange a three-day holiday for himself in the guise of a human being. The trembling noble can scarcely refuse to be a secretive host, and so it happens that Death appears among the other ducal guests as His Serene Highness, Prince Sirki of Vitalba Alexandri...