Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of lady members of the Riverside Tennis Club of Hoboken, N. J., have organized a foot-ball (spelled or mis-spelled "foot-boll") team to be composed entirely of ladies...
...article in the "North American Review" of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard" is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
...cast, Tullio Carminati, as Jumel, is excellent, and Irene Bordoni, playing a French dressmaker who becomes a countess, is, as always, delightful; Shepperd Strudwick, the Napoleon addict is adequate, but his performance lacks sureness. Frederick Loewe's music is pleasant if not catching, the outstanding number being "Why Can't This Night Last Forever." William Dollar's choreography is often striking, but over balanced with quasi-ballet. Albert Johnson's revolving sets are superb...
...North Brother Island in the East River. N. Y. In 1902 German Bacteriologist Robert Koch proved that typhoid could be spread by an apparently healthy person who was a walking repository of germs. In 1907 it was discovered that one Mary Mallon had been employed as cook in a number of homes where typhoid had broken out. She was examined against her will, found to be harboring typhoid bacilli, imprisoned on North Brother Island when she refused to have a gall-bladder operation which might have cured her. Freed a few years later, she broke a promise never to cook...
...account of his experiences as a 19-year-old rookie in U. S. Army camps during the World War. That was his first book for grownups. Before that he had written and illustrated two juveniles, Hansi and The Golden Basket (he has since written two others: The Castle Number Q and Quito Express), but to adults he was known as a Vogue artist and as manager and decorator of Manhattan's small, expensive Hapsburg restaurant. With his second and much lengthier autobiographical volume, Life Class, Bemelmans again writes as perfect an equivalent of his ingenuously sophisticated drawings as James...