Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Pennsylvania will be the host of the delegates, who will be invited to attend the Sophomore prom on Friday evening, April 27, in addition to the Relay Carnival on Friday and Saturday. A special performance of the Mask and Wighshow will also be given, and the delegates will witness the triangular crew race between Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell, in the Childs Cup Race...
...Brigadier General Amos A. Fries chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army, announced the perfection of an " all-purpose canister," a mask which will give adequate protection against all gases, including carbon monoxide, the deadly constituent of coal gas and illuminating gas. Thus an emergency defense against forces let loose in warfare has become a peacetime service of incalculable value to firemen, miners, fumigators, chemical workers...
...University of Pennsylvania will provide entertainment for all delegates attending. A relay carnival has been arranged for Friday and Saturday afternoons, and the schedule of meetings has been so arranged that the representatives will be able to attend. The Mask and Wig Club will also give a special production of "Here's Howe!" on Friday evening. Several dinners and luncheons have been arranged at the Fraternity Houses...
What is the net result? Henry and Nichols built a workable plot and play. Somebody--evidently the body politic of the Hasty Pudding--said "let's not be content with the average performance. Let's not aim to compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating...
...Nikolai Lenin, Premier: Son of a noble, i.e., small hereditary landowner. Irreproachable morals. Strong character supplemented by feminine influence, particularly by his secretary, Fotiva, tall, dark, efficient woman of forty. He appears as the generous autocrat of Moscow. Amazing aptitude for detail. Behind a cold and calculating political mask, he hides a kind and gentle disposition. Every Soviet leader has "lost his head" at least once, except Lenin. Strives to westernize Russia...