Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That any substantial body of graduates should seriously entertain the thought which Mr. Nichols aseribes to them is beyond reasonable belief. Furthermore, he catalogues these extremists as the type "which regards athletics and social life as the pride and security of Harvard." Just what beneficial effect a change in the presidential chair would have on the football team or the crow or club life is beyond the comprehension of the average mind...
...theatrical stars. When the stage manager, by announcing the second act, interrupted the story, the comedian became quite sad faced. "In 1922" said Eddie Cantor, "the night before the Yale game, when the Harvard team was waiting anxiously in New Haven, I ate supper with them and tried to entertain them. They were amused and I was pleased. I told them that if they beat Yale they might have every box in the house. After they won they came down to New York. George Owen and the whole team ran down the aisles and into the boxes while...
Whatever sense of triumph the patriot may entertain at this announcement must be tinged with an abiding pity for the unfortunate victims. No worse fate could be wished for a hated and despised enemy than to have his land suddenly swamped under an importation of clothes tailored at Fashion Park; or to have his respectable Sunday reading debauched by Eight Full Pages of Comics--Funnier Than Ever; or to witness his Shaws and his Galsworthys dethroned by barbarian Sandbergs and Andersons...
...railway field, the merger movement continues to excite interest. In addition to progress among the Big Four in the Northeastern section of the country, the Southwestern roads, especially Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Kansas City, Southern and St. Louis & San Francisco, are beginning to entertain serious merger developments. Whatever 1925 proves in trade and industry, little doubt exists that it will be a remarkable year for the railroad business...
...Love Song. A size 15, EE operetta set itself up at the Century under the guidance of the Messrs. Shubert and managed to entertain its audience considerably. Hundreds of people and masses of scenery do not lend themselves to subtlety. The Love Song is not subtle. But it supplies full money's worth...