Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams. For more than two months Princeton seniors have borne on their white "beer suits" a Blue Eagle with President Dodds's head replacing the bird's. Next week the president was to hand their own class president Arthur Stephen ("Princeton's Best") Lane, the key to the university. Then Senior Lane would lead his 450 classmates behind Nassau Hall where, puffing long-stemmed clay pipes to be smashed on the Princeton cannon when the ceremonies were over, they would hear his presidential address and the class history...
...Key (Warner). Ireland, in the cinema, is usually represented by 1) "Wearing of the Green" played by bagpipes; or 2) Marion Davies saying "acushla." The Key is, therefore, an Irish experiment. Adapted from the London play by R. Gore Brown and J. L. Hardy, with an imported cast including J. M. Kerrigan, once of the Abbey Players, it tries hard to use the Dublin riots of 1920 as authentic background for a semi-serious melodrama...
...obvious fault in The Key as occasional drama is that the incidents which it relates could have occurred just as well in Nicaragua or Cincinnati. Nonetheless, Dublin decorations do not damage a good melodrama. The Key is well constructed and acted with proper enthusiasm. Under Director Michael Curtiz, who took pains to get all the possible wear out of his sets, Edna Best does a commendable job in her first important cinema role. Good shot: a genial Irish bartender advising Captain Kerr to leave by the back door where he knows an ambush is in wait...
...tank-wagon drivers in Cleveland has been settled. There was talk of a fuel oil shortage. The industry's earnings for 1933 soared above those for 1932. At the American Petroleum Institute's semi-annual convention in Pittsburgh last week Consolidated. Oil's J. E. Dyer key-noted: "The oil industry under the code has made definite, unmistakable progress in the past year." There was still a deal of pother about overproduction but John Investor would have gathered from last week's financial pages that Oil on the whole was doing pretty well...
...York University insurance lecturer and an able bacteriologist mother who had four academic degrees of her own, he matriculated in N. Y. U. at 5. At 10 he passed Harvard's entrance examinations, but waited until he was 12 to enter Columbia. He got a Phi Beta Kappa key at 14, an A. B. at 15, an M. A. at 15, a Th. B. (Bachelor of Theology) from General Seminary at 18, a Columbia Ph. D. at 20. Two years ago he was ordained an Episcopal priest, assigned to a small parish in outlying Astoria. His Columbia classmates remember...