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...stop to continual "eating around", or rather that it affords an opportunity for congenial groups of men to have their meals, at board rates, in agreeable surroundings in the buildings in which they live. Perhaps it is not simply a contrary reaction which inspires the frantic defense of eating where one chooses and brings forth slightly ridiculous remarks about the spirit of democracy, the traditional freedom of the undergraduate, and--thunder from Plympton Street--the evils of the system. It may be that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment with the Georgian. And there will naturally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Understanding | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

...Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total of three times. Last week they fooled the guessers and went again, beamed from the "Royal Box" of the soi-disant "Theatre Royal in Drury Lane," while a frantic audience waved programs and sang "God Save the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...this week-end there is an opportunity to realize that intercollegiate football has no monopoly on the athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE ONLY PEBBLE | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

With eleven frantic Washington students periodically hanging onto him or bumping against him. Russell Saunders of Southern California ran up and down a field in Seattle and sometimes stooped to touch the ball against the ground. Southern California 48. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town in a body-after "bootlegging and lawlessness had been stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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