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There can be little objection to the Dramatic Club's staging undergraduate work as a supplement to its productions of recognized authors. Plays by students would probably be not unusually lower in quality than the third rate or freakish productions that have failed to meet the requirements of the professional stage. The stimulating effect on prospective play-wrights in the College would more than offset the possibly inferior quality of the amateur work...
Also why is it most midgets seem to be continental Europeans by birth? Are both my generalizations wrong? And my further observation is that freakish giants also tend to have squeaky voices; that small fully matured normal men frequently have deep bass voices...
Quarterback Ralph Hewitt ran 90 yards for a touchdown and kicked a 52-yard field-goal, but Columbia's nice double-wing attack and the way they ploughed the Cornell line kept their victory from looking freakish. Columbia 10, Cornell...
...even with the exclusion of Grocer Norris, the Republican senatorial contest remained freakish. Candidate of the Old Guard against Senator Norris was State Treasurer William M. Stebbins. Running also was Aaron Reed, 85, "sopping wet," white-bearded Madison lawyer who denounced Senator Norris as "the Great Objector, the stumbling block in the way of efficient legislation...
...Berlin reception was stimulated by more than a freakish operatic frame work. Christopher Columbus was written by two famed Frenchmen, by Poet Paul Claudel, Ambassador to the U. S., and Composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud is also a onetime diplomat. Wartime Paris was a poor hunting-ground for young musicians. Many were forced to other means of livelihood and Milhaud, a prize Conservatory graduate, went to Brazil in 1917 as attaché to the French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even...