Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Tuesday night several undergraduates attended the opening of "Continental Varieties" at the Shubert--the guests of the show's promoters acting through the agency of the Student Employment Office. The only strings attached to the guest tickets were that the student must appear in tails with a lady of his own choosing...
...When Minnesota beat Iowa at football last week Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa lost a bet of one prize swine to Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota. Curtis Dall, ex-son-in-law of the President, a guest of Governor Herring at the game, suggested that the pig should be named "New Deal." When Governor Herring rejected the suggestion, the father of the President's two favorite grandchildren retorted, "Then I think you ought to grease it a little with cold cream to make it a smoother proposition...
...bicycles are as unwelcome as an epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring with them? Can the Metropolitan District Police find nothing better to do than drive cyclists from the Harvard Lollery? Surely, as Edgar Guest might state, the crushing of a worm is neither a laudable nor a difficult achievement...
Professor William Bennett Munro, former chairman of the Department of History, Government and Economics will be the guest of the Department of Government next Tuesday, and he will deliver the lectures in Government 1 and Government 17 on that...
When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...