Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, mess up the living room, drink some rotten gin, and make unbearable attempts at sprightly conversation. The next morning they regret their impulsive assininity. Such a picture is "Platinum Bloude"; it is more or less entertaining while it happens, but at the end there is the flat taste of near-success and the realization that it might have been much better in many ways...
...Welcome is a musi-comedy version of last season's comedy Up Pops the Devil, which retains just enough of the original story & dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances Williams and runs...
...University distance men will cover the flat course of four and a half miles, starting at the end of the Lars Andersen bridge on the Stadium side, and finishing on the Cambridge end, while the Freshman course of three and a half miles, starting by the horse track near the Stadium will end at the same place...
...speculates with the dead nephew's money, makes a tidy fortune. He can get his scrawny, pitiful wife new clothes. He can school his daughter in Paris. He can buy garish new furniture for his wretched flat. But he can never leave the place. He is shackled to the dread secret that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful...
Captain Hallowell, although he has been prevented by examinations from running during the last four or five days, had little trouble in leading the pack over a three and three-quarter miles flat course to turn in a time of 17 minutes and 33 1-5 seconds. C. B. Currier '32, who has not practiced with the team regularly during the 1930 season staged a surprise by placing fourth, and J. W. Putnam '33 showed up well as the eighth Crimson runner to finish...