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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hover anxiously over the heritage of three centuries in sullen defiance of the modern strata on the avenue. Courtiers pass but the grandeur of tradition still holds its grip upon their modern descendants. Modern methods of artificial duplication serve sufficiently to erect a set upon which these youthful actors may display their talents, such as they are, and gratify the eager ambition of parents to whose benefit the family shirt may now be waved advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line bows in and backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...Tuesday, May 14, at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Professor Paul L. Dengler or Vienna. Director of the Austro-American Institute of Education will give an illustrated lecture on Children's Art as a Form of Creative Self Expression". All members of the School are invited to attend this lecture. It is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dengler to Lecture | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...Haven, May 10--In a match characterized by all-around ragged playing on the part of both teams, the Harvard University golf team narrowly defeated the Pennsylvania golfers by a 5 to 4 score here today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF TEAM DOWNS PENN IN NEW HAVEN STRUGGLE | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...May, former star of Rio Rita is so clever with her nimble dance steps that by the time she comes out for her third encore, the house is hers, the song about her boy friend's "shushpenders," and her dance "Subway Shuffle," completely captivating the audience. As for Miss Foster, we are forced to admit that her playlet is rather crude, but her acting, plus her dark hair and bright eyes--well it was a good...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

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