Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owl...
...night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good new songs: It's Only a Paper Moon, I'm a Night Owl. The Mad Game (Fox) contains interesting data on professional kidnappers. They speak of their victims as "mental cases," incarcerate them in a suburban sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer...
...moonlight almost yellow. The moon's hiding, now, behind one of the elms, and the evening star shining above a dead branch. A few other stars are out, but very dim. It's a night far from our time, far even from our world. Not an owl hooting, but the honeysuckle still sweet. And so, my most dear, here endeth the tale! Good-night...
...stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams, he was once asked for his list of the ten most beautiful English words. His list: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...
...disputes arising between any of the parties shall be submitted to arbitration in such form as the Advisory Committee shall determine. Clubs Affected by Rules Governing New Membership A. D. Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Alpha Tau Sigma Club Owl Club Argo Club Phoenix S. K. Club Delphic Club Pi Eta Society Digamma Club Porcellian Club D. U. Fraternity S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Styx Club Iroquois Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Fraternity Zeta Beta...