Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor is of two distinctly different types of and though they may both be very funny, never the twain shall meet. It may be true that a glimpse at "The New Yorker' would leave an Englishman cold, but 'Punch' is to no great laughgetter over here, while in England it has'em in stitches...
...hope of developing closer connections between the United States and Brazil, Maurice Stoinburg ''39 is circulating a petition for establishing a Brazilian Institute in New England with the official support of Dr. Hdefonso Falcao, Brazilian Consul in Boston...
George Bernard Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
...four men were lost to the Varsity at graduation last year, leaving a considerable nucleus around which this year's crew can be built. But, the crew was robbed of a good deal of mileage in the early part of the season by the decidedly disagreeable weather that New England has had this spring. Whether the crew regained enough of this during the holidays is yet to be seen in the first race, against Rutgers and M.I. T. on Saturday the twenty-second...
...Against Germany. A professional Harvard man like Holmes, loving Boston no less than Holmes did (although he was born in Rhode Island, brought up in Philadelphia), Howe is an overseer of Harvard, was for 25 years a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into more polished biographies than Author Howe's; notable is The Flowering of New England, by his good friend Van Wyck Brooks...