Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge he was living at 53 Mt. Anburn Street, the Advocate Building. While in College he was a member of Kirkland House, and last year was president of the House Dramatic Club. As Director this year, he had already begun rehearsals of the Club's newest production...
Last week Thorkelson, who seldom speaks from the floor, but likes to insert his ideas in the Record, was threatened with the loss of a member's last, least privilege: the right to make such insertions. Under such threats from Colorado's Martin, Connecticut's Miller, he "withdrew" the letter, which had been in the hands of the 50,000 Record readers for eight days. The Butte doctor said he had had the "Col. House" letter printed to find out whether it was true, then reverted to his regular theme, told reporters...
...specialty is Shakespeare, Mr. Davis' Jonathan Swift. Mr. Davis was graduated from Oxford, was an artilleryman in World War I, taught at the University of Leeds and Cologne and for 16 years at University of Toronto before he went to Cornell last year. He remained a member of the Church of England but otherwise quickly became Americanized. He moved into an old colonial farmhouse, drove a car, played a good game of golf, joined a few clubs. Slim, fair and sandy-haired, he likes to play the piano, smokes a pipe, looks younger than his 46 years...
...beagle is a short-legged hound, 13 to 15 inches high. Smallest member of the hound family, it has the same characteristics as the foxhound: keen scent, melodious voice (higher-pitched than the foxhound's), a fierce determination to make that tackle. Although many U. S. hunters use beagles to track rabbits, the sport of beagling-in olden days "the poor man's foxhunt"-has remained a Tory pastime ever since the first beagle pack was imported from England...
Quotable Senators were less spicy but just as sore. Said Senator Norris: "I've been in Congress 36 years but I've never seen a Member as dumb as that boy. . . . The movies had a chance to do a good job, but they have given the public only a false, absurd impression." Senator Pepper: "I saw my first professional football game last Sunday." Senator Lodge: "Ridiculous. Just something from Hollywood...