Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29 will welcome the delegates and Dean Sperry of the Divinity School will deliver the closing address. After-dinner speakers are John Kingman '14, president of the United Settlements of Greater Boston, and Robert Lane, director of the Greater Boston Community Survey...
Radcliffe placed five in the group. Ruth Crozier of Cambridge and Nancy Lane of Belmont received bachelor of arts degrees at the Annex. Lucy Axelbank of New York City, who won the grant for study in Mexico; Ruth Fitzmayer of Louisville, Kentucky; and Luz Torruellos of San Juan, Puerto Rico, completed their masters degrees at the 'Cliffe Graduate School...
Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
Once he became undisputed master of Drury Lane Theater, Garrick made improvements. He scrapped some of the more outrageous revisions of Shakespeare (though he lacked the courage to restore the tragic ending of Lear), and he insisted on sincerity in performances. Garrick's actors found themselves merged with their roles-even though the identification might sometimes become too complete. Once when Garrick spoke the line, "There's blood upon thy face," the poor fellow opposite was so startled that he flubbed his lines and cried out, "Is there...
...move but up. The music, at first a restless, syncopated blend of African dance rhythms, Negro blues, brass-band marches, and French Creole songs and dances, spent its raucous teens in brothels, cheap saloons and street parades. Armstrong came up from Jane Alley, a squalid, "back-o'-town" lane in what was then the toughest section of uptown Negro New Orleans. His parents were the nearly illiterate grandchildren of slaves, his father a worker in a turpentine factory, his mother a domestic. Never quiet, Jane Alley became a bloody ground on Saturday nights with razors flashing in the darkness...