Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only tough old John Quincy Adams had gone out of the Presidency so thoroughly unpopular. Hoover had labored mightily, with a stubborn and inflexible conviction in the Tightness of his course, only to see his work go down in public ruin. And no U. S. politician except Adams, calmly stepping back to the House of Representatives to make his experience count, had recovered in political or human terms from the consequences of such a defeat...
...least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted from the Colonial to the Plymouth, separated by a fifteen foot alley, have to be brought to the door by one set of stagemen...
...homey type after all. The other lover fades away, leaving his air of boredom with the audience. Outside the triangle, some consolation may be found with the nincompoop butler, Hugh Herbert, w ho bungles the works as usual. Billic Burke and C. Anbrey Smith are also in the show. Except for the Young loveliness, it would be Hollywood's newest nausea...
...second half year are due tomorrow, December 14, at 5 o'clock, in Room 2, University Hall. A student who falls to hand in his card on time, whether he expects to be in College or not, will be liable for a $5 line. No extensions will be granted except on account of illness...
...tremendous possibilities of another aspect of student music were demonstrated last Thursday at the Leverett House Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like...