Word: kirklander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case the University has an exemplary fire record. Taking last year as an example, reports include one blaze of the Kirkland House dining hall awning, several bonfires in the streets, and a smudge fire in the Advocate Building. This last promised to be a real conflagration, as the structure is one of Cambridge's "naturals" among firetraps, but the engines arrived on time as usual, and nothing happened, causing mixed sentiments among the large crowd of students who had gathered to look...
Representatives of the Vantine studies will start their tour of the Houses with Adams on Monday and Tuesday, November 23 and 24, and will travel thence to Dunster on November 25 and 27, Leverett and Winthrop on November 30 and December 1, and Eliot and Kirkland on December 2 and 3. The circuit will end up with a grand climax at Lowell House, where the photographers will stay four days, from December...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
...Kirkland, to visit H . . . , where a little refreshment soon raised heavy hearts to dwell on matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream...
Tomorrow to the Navy game and to the Kirkland House party afterwards. Puzzled all week over whether to wear soft or dress shirt and now the dilemma is settled because he hasn't enough money to pay for laundering any of his three dirty shirts. Two bits will go a long ways to buy one cocktail before dinner. And a cocktail inside a soft shirt is better than a dress shirt outside of nothing...