Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...
...demand for a "high-stepping, tastefully exposed majorette" is new in Ivy League circles. But the feminine addition to bands had been generally accepted in middlewestern and fall west colleges, which have recognized that "sex is here to stay...
There is one red-hot poker which can put some real fire and spirit into the whole business. This is the selection of a high-stepping, tastefully exposed drum majorette to head up the Harvard marchers. "I reckon it's mighty strange how a pretty leg can kick you between the eyes," a high political official from Louisiana once remarked...
...appointment of associate professors even without the mathematical certainty that they will be promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration, the Council has wisely focussed its attention on the two means best calculated to resuscitate those departments which were tossed over-board last June...
With the exception of the opening scene in the second act, in which Jack Cole and His Dancers turn in an expert and hair-raising number, the present offering at the Shubert dies a lingering and painful death. It seems strange a man of such high standing in the theatre as Mr. Schwab could have become associated with "Nice Goin...