Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lid's Off", the Hasty Pudding's 1936 production, is rapidly taking on a definite semblance to a tip-top musical comedy. Director Bill Holbrook has been rehearsing his choruses for three hours every night since the show started, and a marked improvement can be seen in both the routine members and in the singing...
...obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime superiors with...
With an unusually large turn-out answering the first rehearsal call, Director Arthur Hurley and Dance Director William Holbrook are already selecting possible talent for the forthcoming Hasty Pudding Show of 1936, entitled "The Lid's Off". Choruses are at work practicing and the cast is rapidly approaching completion. Members of the ensemble at present include, Francis A. Wendell '37, Donald Rowell '37, W. Grosvenor Davis '37, F. Lee Wendell '38, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Renouf Russell '38, John A. Roosevelt '38, Willliam S. Pier '38, Benjamin Welles 2d '38, Gilbert E. Jones '38, Cammann Newberry '37, Fitz William Sargent...
Tryouts for this year's presentation of the Hasty Pudding Club annual show will be held in the club house this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The play, entitled "The Lid's Off," has been written by Arnett McKennan '37, Sturgis Warner '37, and Robert Terrall...
...great Nikolai Lenin plastered all Russia with Karl Marx's slogan, "Religion is opium for the people," but Dictator Lenin's household celebrated with a tree every year, Bolshevism or no Bolshevism. Only under Dictator Stalin were Christmas trees in Russia made socially tabu. Last week the lid was off. Savants of Bolshevism gamboled at the Lenin Institute, where the features of their Grandfather Frost were those of Bolshevism's great pioneer in blazing new Arctic routes, Professor Otto Schmidt (TIME...