Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
...minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal firing gets monotonous as the years roll...
...more than a century the study of ancient Greece has been thinning out in Europe and the U. S., becoming a luxury or a slightly silly passion, a rare specialty with scholars, a cliché or nothing to the people at large. Greek is hard to learn (though not much harder than German) and U. S. education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology...
...breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
Last year's opener with Tech, on the small floor of Hangar gym, resulted in a 29 to 24 setback for the Crimson cagemen, and they are anxious to avenge that defeat this year. M. I. T. presents a veteran quintet, but the Feslermen should be much improved over their last year's early season form...