Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information as to how this might be enjoyed by other students, and discovered that performances will be given this evening and tomorrow at 8.15. Students may secure tickets at the door for one dollar. The method recommended for the untaxied is to take a Jamaica Plain car at Park Street, and get off at Eliot Street...
...music records. Some kind benefactor of the University would give great pleasure and the means of further study to Harvard students if he established a fund for the purchase of the symphonic and chamber music pieces which are now being so excellently recorded. A room in Paine Hall might then be equipped with a phonograph, to which harassed students might repair to listen to the works of the masters. Sincerely yours, Leo T. Hurwitz...
Your reviewer also says, "Author Sassoon is not only an able fox-huntsman. . . ." There is no such word as "fox-huntsman." Webster might consider that anyone who hunts is a huntsman, but if our contributors on equine matters used the word loosely in The Alain Liner, we should receive letters of friendly ridicule, if not scorn...
...assertion that Belgium stands committed to mobilize a minimum of 600,000 men, and France a minimum of 1,200,000 for immediate joint action to repel aggression against either state by Germany, Italy or Spain. Such an agreement-declared by Dagblad to run for 25 years-might indeed stir profound uneasiness. But worse still, according to Dagblad, the General Staffs of France and Belgium plan to seize the offensive, in any future war with Germany, by advancing their troops across the Dutch province of Limburg. Thus Limburg would be "violated," as was Belgium...
...people to a dead level. They would make them as marionettes dancing to the dictation of officials-a dance of death so far as progress in our nation is concerned. They would make a bureaucratic machine and drive out of this country men of enterprise in whatever class they might be, who would go to the United States or the Dominions, where enterprise and work by the individual are valued and wanted...