Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food. One who has eaten in the Union or the House Dining Halls during the college year notices a distinct change for the worse. In the summer, it is a task to please the palate of everyone. The difficulty is not the food, or the quality, but the lack of variety and the tasteless way the dishes are prepared and served...
Sirs: Your weekly newsmagazine is well read in this country cottage of ours. But of late we feel a lack in the news reviewed for our information and delectation. As Chicagoans the Century of Progress represents one of our closest interests, and this is true not of our family alone but of most of our circle here and elsewhere. Week after week we have been disappointed to find no mention to speak of, no summary of the numberless events happening in that important area-not to mention the effect the Fair is undoubtedly having on business and the world...
...play seem somewhat better than it really is. Actually, it is merely the familiar French bedroom farce with a dash of high comedy flavoring--but how far removed from true high comedy like "The Second Man"--and lines that are clever and nothing more. And it is this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with the aforementioned aid of Barrymore and Wynyard. Unfortunately, for some inexplicable reason, a large chunk of the best scene...
...Middle Flight TRY THE SKY-Francis Stuart-Macmillan ($2). Irishman Francis Stuart may never set the Liffey afire but it will not be for lack of trying. Author Compton Mackenzie (Sinister Street et al.), who writes a reverently admiring introduction to Try the Sky, thinks Stuart can do it. Says he: "I am proud to think that my name may be associated, be it in ever so humble a way, with a work of the most profound spiritual importance to the modern world. ... I suggest that Francis Stuart has a message for the modern world of infinitely greater importance than...
...Harvard eating, the student body was divided into tables of about ten or more men, seated according to social rank. When the first Harvard Hall burned in 1764 a larger room was procured in the present Harvard Hall, and the seating plan began to take on its present lack of class-consciousness...