Word: hall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the highceilinged, ornamental, gilt-walled hall of the Hungarian Parliament's Lower Chamber walked surefootedly one day last week a young, handsome aristocratic statesman exuding confidence. He was Count Stephan Csáky, Hungary's Foreign Minister; before him were 262 uniformed deputies, waiting expectantly to hear a scheduled speech on foreign relations...
...best new numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
Those who were finally elected from the forty-one candidates starting in the competition are Robert G. Axtell of Helworthy Hall: John M. Bullitt, of Matthews Hall: Evan Calkins of Holworthy Hall: Maxwell Kaufer, of Grays Hall: Norman Meyer, of Waltham; William W. Piuney, of Apley Court: F. Harrison Poole, of grays Hall: William McNKand, Jr., of Grays Hall: John E. Sawhill of Weld Hall, and Robert F. Sherwood, of Wiggisworth Hall...
...Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard...
Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...