Word: heels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other considerations. Is it not obvious that, at least to thinking people, in some small part the fame of the university is due to the non-athletic portion of the community? Not only must we witness the coarsening of the intellectual fibres of "college" men by the iron heel of crude commercialism, but you have the unmitigated presumption to suggest that we contribute to it. There is no middle road. Either the university must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy, or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded tolerance...
...most actors, most trouble. Originally in charge of the region was Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice...
...Alice and the Old Woman again," he said with an air of resignation. "I'll have to barricade myself in the Sanctum for the next twenty-four hours and lie as low as the heel who took those ash trays off the Dunster House tables. I tell you those women will...
...that the revolution has occurred. No barricades have been flung up across Beacon Street, nor have Laski's books been burned on Soldiers Field, but the yoke has been placed upon our necks nevertheless. And, bearing out the theory that the dictator comes from the most unexpected place, the heel that has stamped out our cherished liberties is none other than that of the Student Council...
...opera season a promised high spot was to be the revival of Carmen with Rosa Ponselle. Soprano Ponselle had her chance (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week an audience was agog over another Carmen who sang in Swedish while the rest of the cast sang in French, who lost the heel of one slipper, casually attempted to mend it, finally hurled it into the wings and hopped with one shoe on & one shoe off for the remainder...