Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another item of no small inconvenience is the position of the ground entrance into Widener. Why must that polite old gentleman who examines your books be stationed at the east door of the library? Why can't his person and function be transferred to the Massachusetts Avenue entrance, which is the most convenient for all members of the Houses, especially those who intend to use the elevator which is only fifty feet from that entrance...
...have read with interest your issue of March 30th and congratulate your paper on picking out the important item in our invitation to E. F. Hanfstaengel '09, to return to his twenty-fifth reunion and to be an aid at the Commencement alumni exercises...
Daily, this alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
Sirs: I notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...
...Chaliapin to Paris before he took the Ballet. But the dancers established his reputation with the world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...