Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discontinued over the summer, the broadcasts were resumed on a daily basis during the August crisis. They were again suspended only when it became high treason under German law to listen to foreign newscasts, and when all powerful receiving sets in Germany had been confiscated...
Adams and Dunster House waitresses have also donned the colorful new costumes, rumored to have been adopted by House culinary authorities to make economical Gold Coasters and Funsters forget the now high dining rates...
Admittedly given on a small scale, the production nevertheless did remarkable things with the materials at its command. The suspense, life-blood of the play, was well carried out and combined with a high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels...
...Christmas atmosphere predominates, and it is evident the authors have high hope for the comedy's extended success; perhaps they are not overly optimistic. The play is a fluffy and inconsequential thing, but one cannot fail to enjoy it since it makes no pretense toward being anything more than good entertainment...
...hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...