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Word: havoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that empty radiators have a tendency to transmit sound in an uncanny way and that many an innocent dweller on the fourth floor has been forced to listen in on first floor conversations which, if they do not startle him, are at least distracting. A typewriter creates havoc and it is rumored that radiators have here and there been loosened from the wall by the harangues prolonged into the small hours of the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO-ATORS | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SHANGHAI GESTURE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...unnecessary trial, the stage lovers, who 20 years ago would have taken their bows to the accompaniment of a wedding march, prepare to practice in Rome what they have preached in London. The arch-fanatic is Richard Bird, three years ago imported from England to play The Babe in Havoc. Later he supplied a brilliant Poet MarChbanks in Shaw's Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight line football. Dartmouth ran wild around the ends, while Pennsylvania, using trick plays involving the hidden ball, succeeded in outwitting the Crimson forwards, but neither the Green not the Red and Blue did it one straight football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTING HARVARD LINE CAN STOP ELIS | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...said Mr. Milne's royalty, no one could call him a fussy man. Likewise with those simple souls who still enjoy football for the sake of football and not for the sake of the havoc it creates. They are not fussy, but the present trend leaves them bewildered. Where in the carnival should those three hours which once formed the be-all and end-all be placed." Stripped of their trappings crowds, stadia, bands, riots how do they rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTUMNAL DAZE | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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