Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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June Moon. Ring W. Lardner and George S. Kaufman are the authors of this satire on the noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist...
...North Polar excursion next May. Preparations went smoothly until last week when Dr. Hugo Eckener asked his crew whether they would go. His age (61) and physical condition would prevent his going, but Captain Ernst Lehmann, who piloted the airship on her last trans-Atlantic voyage, would lead. Half the crew, remembering the wreck of Explorer Mobile's Italia, refused to endure the anticipated arctic hardships, dangers. Captain Lehmann refused to travel with the newly trained men he would be obliged to hire...
After a lapse of 18 years the Cadets conducted their first invasion of Cambridge and for the first time were victorious. Cagle will be on the field once again and the colorful captain of the Army forces, aided by Murrell, his powerful running mate, will attempt to lead his eleven to another victory over the Crimson...
Beekman Pool '32 was elected captain of the Sophomore class football team; P. A. Ketchum '31 leader of the Juniors; and R. H. MacKinnon '30, captain of the Senior class football team. These men will lead their men in the intramural class series just beginning...
...Fogg Museum was thrown violently down the whole flight by one of the neophytes for no other apparent reason than that he was born and brought up in the Orient. A passerby on Quincy Street was embarrased by public aspersion on his virility. When drinking or initiation requirements lead to this sort of thing it has been time to stop long before...