Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while attending these games will no doubt be open to much horrified criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...
Those who favored lustier interpretations of the part were frankly disappointed at Gielgud's refusal or inability to scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
...When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named Peter Breughel, in love with the Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies, disgusted with their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke, his hungry friar, his lecherous little dwarf and all his soldiers are royally entertained. Next morning, the strangers troop away across the plains and Boom's burghers come out to face their wives...
President Richard Spencer Childs of Manhattan's City Club invited William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that...
...National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base my hope for American banking...