Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard can no longer hide the issue behind the smoke screen of vague illusions and regrets in the reports of the President and Deans. At the present time the system of Advisers is worse than if there were none at all. The reform this time must be a complete one; no more sweeping the dirt into the corner of the room. The office must be raised to one of dignity and responsibility by selecting a group of young men to serve for a long period of time and picked for their ability to instill confidence in the younger students. They...
Ginger Rogers no longer fakes. Working ten hours a day for two years, she has taught herself to dance, with Astaire's help, until she has become a full-fledged teammate. Irving Berlin, now apparently a third but highly helpful wheel in the Rogers-Astaire tandem, wrote music and lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when...
...Summer (by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...
...discuss the political opposition, he continued, "The report has come to me that a certain State Street lawyer has offered jobs in the state detective force for $1000 apiece. That is one of the troubles we have to face-to make the public realize that this is no longer a Republican administration and that jobs are now obtainable on merit alone...
...question of Senior class elections must be faced in the very near future, and whatever is effected should be made a permanent feature. No longer should the wrangling and unpleasant mistakes of past years be allowed to continue. The time has come to follow the leader, and the ideal leader in this instance is the afore-mentioned Committee of Freshman Elections...