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...Minerva Cafe, 214 Huntington Avenue--$25-.30.-30. Minimum $.50 weekdays, $1.00 Saturdays. No cover. Mixed crowd but rather a nice place. Moderately good show. Inexpensive. Don't dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

Only one waitress did not scream. Her name was Minerva, and she was a nice waitress. It was a mouse in the Eliot House Dining Room, yes, a real wild mouse. No one knew what to do. One suggested that the Head Tutor be called. Another thought the animal ought to be done away with. He was cruel. In the meantime one of those men waiters who wear white coats and carry the really heavy dishes tried to grab the little mouse. But the mouse was under a table where a man from O entry was sitting. The man waiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...home when another gentleman dropped in, and then neither was a gentleman. Lola is humiliated at the cheap, untrue advertisement which she receives. Before the end of the film she fires and rehires press agent Space many times, but she finally yields to him in a beautiful Minerva, or Rolls...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/8/1933 | See Source »

...show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts of Connecticut Hall, and the degree to which jealous shootings, passionate romances, Minerva motor cars and the abduction of football players figure in real college life is still a little below the requirements of most film directors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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