Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
...into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked for his own. With the general Rafael drove, laudably, a bargain: give him and Vitoria one night undisturbed and on the morrow he, Rafael, would surrender himself for slaughter. Rafael and Vitoria had their night. Before...
Among the outstanding Harvard players in today's game will be J. R. Bland '31 who made the All-American team last fall. A. M. Stollmeyer '30, captain and strong defense man, W. D. Vogel '30, and H. H. Broadbent '32, who was a fast forward on the Freshman team. E. J. Grover '31, is the only other player from the University squad, the remainder of the group being Freshman...
Otis Johnson Todd, at present Associate Professor of the Classics, at the University of British Columbia comes to Harvard next Fall as Lecturer on Greek and Latin...