Word: impressarios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sequel to the general misunderstanding about what time it was Sunday morning afforded tardy Freshmen an opportunity to arrive late for breakfast. As late as 9:30 o'clock yawning Yardlings accosted Miss Murray, dining hall impressario, with demands for breakfast, pleading that they did not know there had been no change in time. They breakfasted...
...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...
...about the columns, the Vagabond detects a freshness and spontaneity which break through the veneer of Harvard indifference. Last night only a slightly chilly wind checked his enthusiasm, and even that did not prevent him from joining the group of carollers on the steps, at the invitation of the impressario. Enthusiasm and a large crowd can cover a multitude of vocal sins, as they did the Vagabond's. One cracked voice is a minor point in the general effect, and the Vagabond is everlastingly grateful to Professor Davison and his choristers for their part in upholding a brave tradition...