Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geography 1 were regularly open to Freshmen, individual abilities would appear before the end of the year. This proof is far superior to the present decisions based on amateur psycho-analysis of students by the instructors. It is the only fair method to demonstrate to students their actual adaptability to the requirements of the field. The result should raise the calibre of concentrators, which would be to the advantage of those really interested...
...born in Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player in the city orchestra. In his early years he was known as a piano virtuoso. At twenty he was slim, stooped, with fair hair and flashing blue eyes; among strangers he acted as shy, as embarrassed, as deferential as Charles Butterworth. His musical idols were Bach and Beethoven, and his weighty style bore traces of both...
...mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that all sales of Eau de Cologne be carefully checked...
After Jimmy Walker and ineffectual John P. O'Brien, Mayor LaGuardia has given New York City a shrilly articulate but assiduous, conscientious administration. He runs for re-election next fall against Tammany. Since a World's Fair will be held in New York in 1939. Tammany will fight "The Little Flower" hard to secure this plum...
...orchestras, a cast of 102, and 15 changes of scenery are mild indications of the magnitude of the extravaganza now in preparation, while such parts as "The Dog's Skin", "the right foot" and the various "lovers", "lunatics" and "mad ladies" bid fair to intimate that the play will be grotesque as well as giantesque. Outstanding among the cast will be Alice Plimpton, Dorothy Wright, Martha Bird and Joan Jacoby of Vincent Club and Junior League affiliations; Peggy Eastell, Priscilla Freeman, and Barbara Logan from Erskine; Desiree Rogers, newly debbed, Jean Halliday from Beaver Country Day, Peggy Carter and Leslie...