Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that...
...toppling, 5,000 Chicagoans one night last week braved an April blizzard to watch the kegling of the local Birk Brothers (Superb Beer) quintet, which had won almost every tournament in the Midwest this year. Birk Brothers had won the A.B.C. title once-in 1917, with the same lead-off man, Policeman George Geiser, and the same anchor man, Lawyer Jules Lellinger, both of whom have been bowling for Superb Beer for a quarter of a century. Neither had ever posted a perfect game; but the other three members of the team-Leo Krisch, George Notz and Joe Traubenik...
Following the lead of The Thin Man (TIME, July 9, 1934), There's Always a Woman puts on a cheerful but exciting air of informality by making crime detection safe for the younger married set, plays prankish variations on the traditional theme that the police (Scotland Yard excepted) are always baffled. Best scene: Detective Blondell undergoing a third degree at the hands of her worsted cop competitors, ending up a fresh & dewy pink in a roomful of wilted bluecoats...
...current theories of four dimensions, quanta, relativity, and the time-space continuum. Each problem is outlined as it arises in a logical approach, and each theory gets its day in court, with the difficulties that led to its formation, the events it explains, and the new difficulties that lead to its revision and rejection...
...will be a development of a strong sentiment against "public disturbances" on the part of the undergraduates is an idealistic one. The lure of adventure and the love of milling in crowds on warm spring evenings is inherent in every student here, and adventurous milling is rather likely to lead to that classic Deanism, "public disturbance...