Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twice a year--in the duties of those who patrol the college has everything in its favor. Unless all the night porters are familiar with every nook and cranny of the University, their usefulness in protecting the property and population is seriously impaired. With their simple routine functions to perform, the force's efficiency and morale is stiffened and braced by a change of outlook and terrain. Furthermore, the position of night patrolman at any one house should not become a vested interest, for watchmen and porters should be considered as University employees, available for duty in the college...
...fall into the pitfall of making its shifts too frequent. Life in the Houses becomes more pleasant and comfortable if the inmates are on friendly terms with the men who stand at the gates, and the Winthrop House petition bears striking witness to the service which these men perform. It is to be hoped Lehman Hall will not lose sight of the value to the residents of friendly dealings with those who serve, yet only stand and wait...
...result, the public service of Mr. Landis must be ranked as one of the brightest spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...
...incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern and in a clear, ringing voice read the second Scripture Lesson. It was about Biblical David (Luke II, 1-20), and the Duke has always been called David in his own family. This performance was taken to be a retort pious to the Archbishops of England and a clincher on the pastor of Vienna's English Church, Rev. Dr. C. D. H. Grimes, to perform the wedding of David Windsor some time next spring to the Woman...
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...