Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack clasp each other in a tender embrace, and an audience worn out with hissing the villain and cheering the hero leaves the Peabody Playhouse mulling over the pleasant taste of the nineties left by the Stagers' presentation of "Gold in the Hills...
...before, "The college showed very tangible disapproval." Vegetables were probably the order of the day. H. D. C. decided to revamp the production. Under satirical treatment, "Brown of Harvard" responded nobly. With due melodrama the hero thwarted those who would tread on his good name and arrived in the nick of time to lead his crew to victory over Oxford. Harvard cheered loud and lustily, and seemed fully to catch the spirit of the thing...
...producing and acting were, on the whole, commendable enough. Rosemary McHugh, although she suffers, of course, by comparison with Ann Harding, does well in the character of Linda, especially in act two; towards the last, however, her whining insistence became irritating. John Court '35 in the role of Nick Potter gave an admirable performance and Richard Sullivan '35 did a good piece of work as the drunken and disillusioned brother. Katherine Embree was adequate if somewhat stiff as Julia Seton and Thomas Radcliffe '35 was staid enough as the father, Edward Seton. The lines, of course, are clever...
...learned Novitates Zoologicae, and occasionally a story for the Press about fleas, of which it has the world's premier collection. The fortune of Zoologist Rothschild has not escaped Depression. Last year the second Baron Rothschild, now grown to look like a huge-paunched, twinkle-eyed St. Nick with a Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained eyes will understand why the anthropologists and paleontologists, who for weeks have been studying her skull with microscope and calipers, classify her as a Mongoloid type, more Eskimo than Indian. Professor Jenks puts her age at 17½ years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps...