Word: half
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont--"Floretta", Earl Carroll's half million dollar musical comedy, starring Leon Errol...
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...University town is an attractive place of residence for Bostonians who have nothing to do with the University. In our day everything within a half mile of the Yard was dominated by the College, and even those of us who lodged in rooms outside the College buildings during some part of our four years were still within the academic sphere of influence. All now is different. Apartment houses crowd the streets and surround the Yard. The city engulfs...
...must face the face that this is only the beginning. What will Boston and Cambridge be fifty years from now? The Metropolitan District of Boston already has a population of about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum, Professor Wolfgang Liepe of the University of Kiel, Germany, will open a series of six lectures in German. Professor Liepe, who is Visiting Lecturer on German Literature during the first half-year, will speak on "The Theatre in Germany" in the first four of his lectures, and will discuss certain personalities in the last...