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...Aubrey Lyles, the lazy and fantastic brace of dark comedians who slouched with such comic melancholy through Shuffle Along, are again on hand. They organize the Equal Got League, a millennial society which is even funnier than the Knights of the Green Forest; Mr. Miller is its cunning and listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
Joseph Lifrak '29 starred for Harvard in the 145-pound event. His spectacular finish in a listless, evenly matched overtime proved the climax of the evening Outwitting his wiry adversary in the last few minutes of the struggle, he heaved him to the mat for a referee's decision of 1:51 minutes...
...game, listless save for occasional flashy bits of stick work, the Harvard Seconds hockey team defeated the Cambridge Latin ice combination by a score of 2 to 1 yesterday afternoon at the Arena...
...warmly human temper. "As soon as I knocked my first run," he said, "I thought to myself: 'There's one for the sick kid.' ' Before the day was over he had knocked two more and accounted for five runs. Rallying their bats behind him, the listless Yankees hammered out salvos of singles and doubles. Score: New York, 10; St. Louis...
Instantly the bandits thrust Mr. Rosenthal before them. Worn and listless after three nights in the open, he staggered. As the soldiers kept up their fire two bandits drew their machetes, plunged them again and again into Mr; Rosenthal, finally fired two shots into his back. He, reeling, walked ten yards toward his would-be rescuers, pitched forward, dead...