Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same fanciful way. Evreinov, the musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov, can still play fantastically upon every mood. Like the Spanish dramatist...
Stuart Sherman, once professor at Illinois, now editor of the book review of the New York Herald Tribune thus places the gentleman of the faculty in his niche to gather dust, and turns to another "Letter to a Lady...
...departing from my hitherto unbroken rule of refraining from picking the winner of Harvard games by forecasting the Harvard-Brown game today. Harvard will win, or else let the name of Joe Forecast be dragged forever in the dust. Harvard will win, or else never again let the pen of Joe Forecast be dipped to ink. Harvard will win or else Joe Forecast will lose his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
...have been bruised and shocked, knocked down and run over by this fact, by that revelation, or by some astounding truth which I had not previously encountered in my brief span of years. Still I offered no opposition; in most cases, I merely picked myself up, brushed the dust from my coat, and set but to find new adventures, hopeful, unquestioning, perhaps the least bit daring...
...picture we paint is not confined to this college. It is the shameful shadow that is being cast by the entire American educational system of today. Jazzed up oultures. Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. To the dust blink with literature and the arts unless they can be turned to the profitable channels of scenario writing or short story work. Are you willing to be students of the name? Thinkers that do not fainter beneath the condemnation of the sleepy, mind-covered heard that grunts and ambles its way down the ruts to oblivion?" Mlcatgan State "Green Onion...