Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nineteen years ago Dancer Nijinsky, a sloe-eyed young man with supple joints and tremendous thighs, headed the Serge Diaghilev Russian Ballet in its triumphal tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great...
...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
...seems that out in California they're all axing each other about a tough situation. Nineteen months ago, proud Stanfordites, the "21," took illegal possession of a traditional axe which was the rightful property of California, and by safely vaulting away, got the trophy into a bank. There, ever since, it has remained, while Stanford wonders what can be done about the matter...
...Wright's letter in Wednesday's CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...
Eleven presidents and nineteen deans representing 14 colleges and universities in New England will assemble this morning in Eliot House to open the annual conference of the Association of Colleges in New England. The conference, which will meet three times today and tomorrow in the common room of the Society of Fellows, Eliot House, gathers for the purpose of comparing notes, and to hold informal discussions pertaining to matters of administration. No action will be taken...