Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara's moral scheme is dependable as far as it goes. But his writing is limited by the excellence of his dislikes. His ear for heeltalk is so mercilessly accurate that some of the stories depend on that alone (e.g., "But one night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
...full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...
...amount is to reach that figure, the remaining upperclassman have to subscribe more heavily than those who registered on Saturday. Making up about one-fourth of the college, they contributed only about one-sixth of the goal, Phil Neal '40, president of the Student Council, pointed out last night...
Reginald H. Phelps '30, Registrar of the College, in a statement last night, mentioned that most of the Monday registrations in former years have come between 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning, and advised early registration to avoid crowds and to speed up the process of getting through Memorial Hall...
Friday noon President Conant gave a luncheon for the Nieman Fellows and Friday evening the first of the regular Nieman dinners was held at the Signet Society's clubhouse. Featured speakers at Friday night's were Archibald MacLeish, now Librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington; Ralph M. Ingorsoll, former member of the staff of Time, Inc.; and Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who attended many of the dinners last year and showed considerable interest in the work of the Nieman Foundation...