Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of P.B.H., will preside at the forum held under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...Nash had hung. Each judge had 15 stickers the first day and seven slips of paper the second, strolled through the galleries, licking, sticking, narrowing down the field for the final choices. Last week 5,000 well-dressed people surged up the Institute's broad marble stairs to open Pittsburgh's social season and the 37th International. They spent more time looking at each other than they did at the pictures. But all of them at least glanced at Georgia Jungle. Jack Nash, as usual, had been right. It had won the $1,000 first prize...
...famous lecturer who goes to a dull dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside...
Died. Zane Grey, 64, best-selling romancer of the open range, record-holding deep-sea angler; of coronary thrombosis; in Altadena, Calif. Native of Zanesville, Ohio (named after his family), former dentist, former baseball player, he had to publish his first book himself, hit the jackpot with Riders of the Purple Sage, turned out 37 novels in 35 years-for over 15,-ooo.ooo readers...
...rest of the Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...