Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college dining halls grew up under two conditions which have radically changed today. It grew up at a time when there was no such thing as college dining, as Harvard knows it today; at a time which may be characterized as the Memorial-Hall-long-table-biscuit-throwing era. What is more, the generations which it oversaw had not, for the most part, discovered that intemperance is next to godliness, and that grain alcohol is much cheaper, yea, and more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many...
...Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least 200,000,000 gal. of something seems certain. That that something will be mostly whiskey is the bet of most of the shrewd gentlemen waiting on the line for the Repeal signal...
Constance Bennett, as Carla, the alluring Russian spy, strives vainly to convince us that "Marx brothers hocus-pocus" was a thing of the past, specifically of the World War era. We can believe many things, but we cannot swallow this story. Carla passionately loves Rudi, who is in the intelligence department of Austria, and she pursues ugly pseudo-Gypsies so that she may give them important messages to take back to dear old Russia. She writes cryptic notes with invisible ink; she is always just about to cross the border; she sees the dirty fingernails of a Russian soldier with...
...playing skill of the leading golfers of today is not much superior to the quality of golf displayed by the outstanding players of the pre-war era when I won my first national title. The difference between these two periods, however, lies in the fact that in 1914 there were only about four or five topnotch golfers. Now, on the other hand, there are over a score of players of championship calibre and this number increases each year...
...desire to make Inter-University football of less importance than it is, but the first of the "championship" football games between the winning teams from the Harvard Houses and the new Yale Colleges last Saturday afternoon at the Bowl may well be the start of a new era. it was poetically fitting that Harvard sent down her leading team from Winthrop House, and that Yale's challenger was Saybrook College. Both of these old New England Colonial names--one that of the first Governor of Massachusetts, and the other the fourth English settlement in Connecticut, founded by the same John...