Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming offering "A Comedy of Good and Evil," and the announcement of its production on May 3 and 4 at Brattle Hall, the Dramatic Club has now turned to final selection of the cast. Because of the difficulties presented by some of the roles, casting must be done with particular care, but the actors will probably begin rehearsal Wednesday...
...should like to emphasize the fact that the intramural sports and in particular inter-House athletics will be fostered as before. Even those minor intercollegiate sports from which support will be withdrawn may well continue on an intramural basis...
Resolutions offered by Senators Nye and Clark to restrict the issuance of passports and the making of loans to belligerent nations are of particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance...
...join the League of Nations, its refusal had positive as well as negative implications. Our insistence on full neutral rights would, of necessity, have conflicted with the projected League policy of blockading aggressors. It was this possibility that caused English support of the League to cool and in particular explained her refusal to sign the guarantee treaty desired by France at that time. The present crisis, which may force the British into a more vigorous stand, coupled with a possible change in American policy (foreshadowed by some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements and given concrete expression in the proposed Senate...
...Hall was a jim-dandy at the piano. Tom was all of that. He could glance over a piece of difficult music he had never seen before, throw it aside, and play if off fluently from note memory, a feat few have been able to master' . . . One distinction in particular contributed to his prestige. This was his election in his sophomore year as conductor of the Pierian Sodality, the college musical society . . . . . As he grew older he found a keen enjoyment in charades and masquerade balls, spending weeks prior to his school vacations planning brave entertainments for the recess...