Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Tuesday will be only Washington's Birthday to those Harvard students who will dutifully loaf in honor of the Father of Our Country. But out in Cincinnati, next Tuesday will be lot more than a yearly holiday. For on that date, some thirteen Harvard Clubs will gather there for the first annual meeting of the Regional Harvard Clubs of five middlewestern states...
...Harvard defeat further darkened the hockey outlook here which has grown gradually gloomier as the season has progressed. A lot had been expected of the present outfit which had retained most of its stars from last year's great squad whose only defeat was administered by McGill. Now observers are beginning to question the squad's potentialities...
...setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood hangers-on, and wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models is the anachronistic quip: "This time I'm right. . . ." "Oh yeah! So was the Literary Digest...
...this axis the play, now whimsically, now racily, now sentimentally, keeps turning throughout many scenes. Sound instinct in Playwright Osborn prevents the story from getting mawkish or unwieldy. A lot of salty cussing on the old man's part gives the play feet as well as wings. And an extremely cute seven-year-old (Peter Holden) makes everything seem innocent and wholesome...
...jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project "in protest against the Fascistic way it is being operated." When he heard this, Director Kimball relaxed his dignified silence for the first time to say that "Argyrol" Barnes's complaints were a lot of rubbish...