Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Debating Council were assigned to teams for debates with Radcliffe, Holy Cross, Yale, Brown, Williams, and Amherst at a meeting in Lowell House Common Room last evening. The assignments were announced by assistant coach Irving Murray in the absence of Edward Rowe, Harvard's Debating Director...
...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
...sympathetic impulses are guided by a hard head or a hot hunch, Broadway wiseacres pointed to his phenomenal success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes...
Charm: "Did you know there is glamor in your great toe?"-Arthur Murray in "Walk Gracefully...
Citing the statement of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, in which he said that "the three military dictatorships of Japan, of Germany, and of Italy are more menacing forms of despotism than Communism," the petitioners say that they agree with such doctrines...