Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall be much obliged if you will allow me space in your paper to express my feelings of sorrow on the passing of my friend, Max Keezer. Such sorrow is not peculiar to me, but is general among large sections of Harvard men within and outside the University community, since Mr. Keezer's genial personality, sympathetic interest in the problems of undergraduates, and willingness to aid needy students, endeared him to thousands...
...Liberal Union, why then does the Liberal Union send delegates to Washington? The answer to this is simple, when one remembers that the Liberal Union has a program which it is endeavoring to put forward to American youth. The Washington meeting affords to the Liberal Union an opportunity to express itself to other young people, some of whom at least are aware of the futility of the program advocated by the Youth Congress. In short, if we send our members to speak for us in Washington, it is not to support the Youth Congress' program, but rather...
...tradition exists. Harvard will not forget the sympathetic mentor who first rubbed out the Harvard indifference between Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express it again"; the very human bit of Harvard's past who, belonging to the favored few that mellow but never age, at 81 still fascinates student audiences...
From then on express liners shuttled her back & forth across the Atlantic from hit to hit. Some of her plays were dramatically feeble ? but she was always the delectable Lawrence. The London Times's dramatic critic observed: "Miss Lawrence's performance is nearly always a matter of making bricks without straw." The management of His Majesty's Theatre once had to serve breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure...
...hyper critical and candid Coward, her acting began to acquire sureness and scope. After Private Lives even Robert Benchley was encouraged to say: "Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York. She can now express wild surprise without such feats of contortion as really ought to be saved up for the more startling details of the Last Judgment...