Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Bennett Bizzell, President of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.: "I held my breath and swallowed hard; I tried coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital-but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while...
...They sucked food through' rubber tubes. They listened to the cheerings of their followers. The red flares of surrender were going up often now. Few were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing...
...cast is distinguished by veteran and as well as new talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
...part of the soldier De Laubry, saved from execution by the intervention of du Barry, M. Rolla Norman is often more convincing than Sorel, but it is she who seems to lend fire to his lovemaking, aiding him to reach heights of ardor which she herself does not attain...
...single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action unfolds before the fantastic beauty of Norman Bel Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey...