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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DUMB-ANIMAL?Osbert Sitwell?Lippincott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...face of such revolting abjectness of spirit [as Sir Harry's], criticism can but hang its head and be dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scotland in Eclipse | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Nations as organizer. His point: If only as much as 2% of men eligible for military service would refuse to fight, there would not be jails enough to hold them, there could be no war. Mme Rosika Schwimmer, pacifist-author, acted as interpreter when the regular translator was struck dumb with excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: He Is Worth It | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Tonight at 8.30 o'clock, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present "The Dumb Boy of Manchester," a melodrama written by B. K. Ryner and first performed in London in ISSS, at The Chapter House, 396 Harvard Street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELTA UPSILON TO GIVE PLAY AT CHAPTER HOUSE TONIGHT | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

Breaking away from the fraternity's tradition of presenting revivals of Elizabethan Drama such as Jonson's "Alchemist" and Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday". "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" deals with the melodramatic plot of a dumb hero accused of murder which he cannot explain. His sister, the virtuous heroine and wife of the villain, finally reveals the fact that her husband committed the murder, and he kills himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELTA UPSILON TO GIVE PLAY FRIDAY EVENING | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

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