Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Policies of the United States Government." Because the purpose of the conference is to enable undergraduates to discuss problems of the day with distinguished faculty men from the three universities and men prominent in public life, it will consist of five round-table discussions with student, teacher, and guest participating...
...Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times in each broadcast...
...Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie Donahue was supposed...
Robert Frost (Litt. D., '37, honorary), poet and teacher, will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight, and will speak afterward in the dining room on "The Figure a Poem Makes," Illustrated with readings from his poems...
...Lowell House symposium in scheduled for tonight the second in a series of lectures designed to demonstrate the usefulness of the inter departmental tutorial system. Granville Hicks, fellow in American History, will be the guest speaker on the subject of the evening. "Karl Marx, and his influence on the thought of his time...