Word: elysium
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...Yale Puppeteers will make their Boston bow at 8.15 o'clock tonight at the Elysium Club 218 Huntington Avenue. This company of Yale undergraduates spends its summers carrying itself and its stock of puppet actors and actresses around in Ford trucks, cruising from place to place in the New England states, giving entertainments at summer colonies. Performances similar in tone and appearance to Tony Sarg's Marionettes are given with a series of scenes of variety and humor. Miniature sketches of a full orchestra, with a nine inch Koussevitsky conducting, a tiny Paderewski playing a grand piano less than...
...favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class. During these interims from daily attendance upon the old-time lectures and recitations, the Harvard plan is to substitute outside reading, apparently of a character that will make the old daily work seem an Elysium of ease by comparison. So the plan is not a 'let down" of work, but quite the contrary. As stated in the Harvard announcement of this change, it has been made because it was believed that Harvard teachers had too much to do and that the students would do better...
...gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis. A Victor record would become a substitute for an opiate. Putting his favorite record on the Victorla, any hypnotisee would recognize His Master's Voice and doze off into Elysium...
...four reasons for opposing Military training in the Colleges, presented by Fellx Cohen, on behalf of the intercollegiate Conference of the League for Industrial Democracy, and published on the 31st, ulto., to my mind is the Elysium of oddities, the limbo of absurdities and the imbroglio of indiorous anomalies...
...Florida Water and Fragrance" [article by "C. W. Barren" for C. W. Barren, president of the Wall Street Journal, author of many articles analyzing Florida]. "Those who do not like Gory Cables can go to hell. Fifty million dollars have already been spent on this Elysium. Most of this has been for publicity. ... On the highest point, which is approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here...