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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical Harvard glamour boy with crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixings. He writes for the "Crimson" and is absolutely death on the tutoring schools. After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolf" even if it means flunking out next semester. I tried to be sympathetic, but then deliberately referred to the "yard" as the "campus" when I found out he'd already invited a date for the Yale game. --Escort

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even the composers who adopted the starkest writing of the post-war period seem to have modified their attitude recently...

Author: By L. C. Hoivik, | Title: The Music Box | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

...syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

...highly aristocratic Potocki family, the ambassador has constantly worked for his country's freedom and later for its government. Originally aide de camp for the late Marshal Pilsudski, he served as minister in Ankara before coming to Washington. Even now, with the Moscicki faction out of power, he has held the confidence of the new government at Paris headed by General Sikorski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

...Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face of a new onslaught upon us by British propaganda. The picture which Mr. Stange presents is one of a rapid drift away from a combination of indifference and pacifism toward the general acceptance of the need for preparedness and even of some militarism for its own as well as for the Allied sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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