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After distributing cigars, and "cigarettes for the effeminate", Mr. Kittredge sat and smoked, and listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...

Author: By Douglas Bush and Professor OF English, S | Title: BUSH RECALLS AWE AND GRATITUDE AROUSED BY SCHOLAR'S MAJESTY | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...ANSWER SHEET ANSWER SHEET -commuED « -CONTINUED -, -53 PIC 53 PIC TURES TURES 79 THEA 79 THEA 80 TRE 80 TRE OF WAR OF WAR 81 81 54 82 54 oo 55 83 55 56 84 57 85 57 oc 58 86 58 86 59 87 59 87 60 88 60 88 61 61 62 SCIENCE 62 SCIENCE 63 89 63 89 64 90 64 90 66 91 65 91 92 66 92 67 93 67 93 94 68 94 69 95 70 70 THE THE ARTS BUSI ARTS BUSI NESS NESS FINANCE 97 FINANCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...four actors in one of the oc-occasions most dramatic sideshows, this tension will not be relaxed until all the players are out of the locker-rooms and on their way to break training. They are the Sophomore managerial candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Managerial Candidates Will Learn Their Fates Today After Game | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...Dudelsackpjeijer (Bagpipe-player) made a Metropolitan Opera audience forget last week how bored it had become with the idea of new operas, few of which survive more than one or two seasons. Not even a middle-aged Wagnerian (Baritone Friedrich Schorr), who endeavored to impersonate swaggering Schwanda by oc- casionally skipping across the stage, seemed to dim the happy effect that Czech Composer Jaromir Weinberger got with his sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera. It has had over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best-Selling Schwanda | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Feng Yu-hsiang, the "War Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chang, Chiang, Feng | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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