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...Stick to Your Arithmetic" and "I Was Afraid of That"; if you shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...those less team minded, there is Weld Boat House with its wherries, camps, and singles. Expert Blake Denison is on hand to coach the landlubber. This sport, less popular in the short, often frigid aurum season, comes into its own in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

There is scarcely a stranger spot for Nazi expansion than Argentina's windy, frigid Patagonia, which stretches 1,000 miles down the Atlantic coast almost to Cape Horn. Seeing how their Führer grabs off huge bites of Europe, Nazi agents on other continents are prone to have big ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Nazi Bungle | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...latest piece of snow art was more elaborate than its predecessor which was constructed as a companion to John Harvard. The raison d'etre of the latest frigid female seems to be that the Funsters thought that they ought to have some reminder in the winter of their female company which inhabit the shores of the Charles in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE GRACED BY ICICLE FEMALE INHABITANT | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...religion. His plays are allegorical in form and emotional in appeal. Their very simplicity is a stage asset, has the strength of black against white. Carroll is not yet really important, but he is Irish: he has rich-juiced dialogue, abundant humor, powerful characterizations. Mellow, charming Canon Lavelle and frigid, heartless Father Shaughnessy possibly provide too pat a contrast. But both are brilliant stage characters, inspire the belief that Carroll will some day achieve an even greater creation-mere human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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