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...that the ghosts have walked and the witches ridden their broomsticks in fact, now that Hallowe'en has made its yearly visit and there remains no reason why the Georgian's pumpkin pies would be made of squash--there is nothing in sight to break the expanse of featureless days until Armistice Day, some twelve days hence. One of the best ways to start on this stretch is to attend Professor Kittredge's lecture on Chaucer at 10 o'clock in Sever 11 this morning. Professor Kittredge is one of the foremost authorities on this first of English poets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...devil dance. While she is not dancing, she makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. Her well-shaped shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray was born in Poland to a poor man named Michelsky. He named his daughter Mariana, emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Louisiana journeyed up to Indianapolis and trailed behind Indiana throughout a featureless first half. Then she rose in her strength, burst through, won 20 to 14. This was another "first big intersectional game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...however, that the stock market is now, as upon former occasions, a better index to the future than the postprandial discourses of many of its critics. The largely featureless stock market of the past few weeks may prove next Spring to have reflected a period of duller but largely painless business conditions. But by that time the public who watch stock prices will be more interested in their bearing on the Fall of 1924 than upon their forecasting accuracy this Autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Nov. 5, 1923 | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

Yale's work throughout the present season has shown slow but steady growth. From a featureless beginning the team has gradually improved, adding strength, versatility and team work with the evident aim of reaching the height of its development in the last two games. The team's improvement was checked to a certain extent, however, by the omission of the game with Colgate, which was cancelled because of the death of T. W. York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVELOPMENT OF TEAM | 11/22/1912 | See Source »

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