Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year this miracle play is being performed for the first time in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants...
...hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook the girl...
...absolutely elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretching. Rubber does not do that. Pull a piece of rubber, release it, measure it. It is deformed. Old rubbers are bigger than new ones. Steel is far more elastic than rubber, but of course much less stretchable. Glass is probably more elastic than steel. Quartz is an almost perfect elastic. Hence its use in nice measuring instruments such as telescopes...
...Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen to succeed Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Conservatory of Music at St. Petersburg. In 1917, when most artists fled Russia, Glazounov stayed on, fought bravely to maintain the pre-Revolution standards...
...busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire hazards such as in dormitories, henceforth Goucher girls might smoke when, where, and as much as they pleased. Said he: "It was found that enforcement of the rule forbidding the young woman to smoke in public places required snooping and tattling, incompatible with the dignity of the college...