Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night in Venice. With this revue the Brothers Shubert administer their customary antidote to city summer and complete a trilogy which was begun in past summers with A Night in Paris and continued with A Night in Spain. Again the Shuberts have felt no great obligation to their chosen title?the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
During the past six weeks Punch has published a few genteel quips on electioneering, a few more about "flapper voters," a few jokes based on heckling in mass meetings. Beyond that there has been no reference to the elections...
...body of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, preacher of democracy, left last week Peiping's Temple of the Azure Cloud, where it has been for the past four years. Six hundred miles away, a monumental mausoleum was ready to receive it, built by the Nationalist government on a hillside overlooking Nanking. Bearing it thither was an elaborate railway funeral coach, pride of the Peking-Hankow Railway, built of hand carved teakwood, fitted with solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double...
...indifference to the press of the trousers or the shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance...
...Because of the limit on the number of men entering Harvard College and because of the poor showing of men who have in the past been readmitted after an initial failure the Administrative Board hereafter will ordinarily not grant readmission to men whose connection with the College has been severed. It will, however at its meeting on September 13, 1929 consider all applications which have reached the Dean before September 1. and in exceptional cases may grant readmission...