Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the dinner, Robert H. Rawson '36, retiring chairman of the House Committee, presented Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, with a silver cigarette case in recognition of his services as acting House Master during the first half of the current year...
Roger B. Merriman '94, Master of the House and donor of the bowls, inaugurated the bowling season last week by tossing the first set. Finding it difficult to control his power, however, be soon withdrew. John M. Potter '26, head tutor, confined his activity to remarking on the excellent condition of the green, a remark obviously aimed at numerous loudly voiced opinions that their technique was not entirely to blame for their poor shots...
...unconfirmed rumor has been unearthed that Professor Merriman has sent a challenge to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Lowell's Master, to a formal bowling bout...
...Though Adman Barton has not definitely accepted the National Republican Committee's invitation, he got in some practice last week at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Suggesting that businessmen get busy in the politicians' own backyard, he took off his hat, as one master salesman to another, to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Singing Kid" Al Jolson gives another singularly uninteresting performance. Jolson's line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times...