Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Dance is concerned with the stratagems of a group of New England college girls trying to make a footloose Yale boy stay home and marry a friend of theirs instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas...
...Given a junket to Manhattan by his grateful underlings, Midget Charles Robert Lockhart, 3 ft. 9 in., State Treasurer of Texas, made a round of night clubs and burlesque shows, happily declared: "I'm going to have a good time while I'm here. After all, it doesn't cost me a damned thing...
...Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much persuasion to junket to Princeton...
...When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle on an innocent junket, to stir up the Saints in foreign lands...
...presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...