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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Lady accepts her husband as he stands. She has her rows in private. Few have heard her complain in public of his lack of deference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lese Majeste | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...many of them. There were more principals than there were generals in the War. There were masses of gorgeous scenery and scores of swoops for the trombones. There were cool costumes and warm dancing. In fact there was everything but wit. So tremendous was the show that the lack of laughter glared ominously. The elaboration bore down upon the spectators' sensibilities and became oppressive. Accordingly, The Great Temptations stood forth as an exceptionally dull revue. It is not impossible that the producers may hurriedly purchase jokes and humorists in abundance and lighten up their handiwork. In such a case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...then one must help the organist find tunes. So the name gives rest to the weary brain of Martel and his assistant by suggesting all the "baby" hits of the past year for accompaniment. They took the suggestion. So there is no reason for lack of symmetry in this dual art of comic music and comic muse. It is certainly a system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...only for the reasons just given, is the recent increase in numbers in Yale College fundamentally an undesirable thing; it has reacted unfavorably by overcrowding the college at the expense of Sheff, and was, of course, the origin of the chapel change, in that it was the lack of seating accommodation in Battell that led to the alternate-chapel plan of last year which in turn resulted in a reconsideration this year of the whole chapel matter and its recent abolition. One reason for this overcrowding of the college was the transplanting of the select course under its new horticultural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Considers Pros and Cons of Division Into Small Colleges | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...cent, the B. A. and the remaining 19 per cent, choosingly for engineering and 11 per cent, for science, all results in but 244 men going to Sheff as against 560 to the college. This in itself is a considerable factor in he lack of unity, which the college undergraduates now feel, and which a good many alumni would like to see changed to the older conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Considers Pros and Cons of Division Into Small Colleges | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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