Word: pi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening the doors of the clubhouse on Winthrop Place to the public the Pi Eta Club at 8.15 o'clock tonight will put on its 47th annual show "Knock on Wood," written, directed, and enacted by club members...
...Knock on Wood", a musical comedy in three acts by Graham MacLeod '32, will be presented by the Pi Eta Club of Harvard on March 22 and 23 at the club theatre at 1 Winthrop Square. Following a custom of over half a century, all the music, lyrics, and designs have been originated by the members of the club, and both the masculine and feminine parts will be portrayed by undergraduates...
...Jean Chiappe had many friends. Blue-caped policemen talked of a protest meeting in sympathy, and Minister of War Jean Fabry and Finance Minister Francois Piétri quit the Cabinet. There was more to their resignation than sympathy for Jean Chiappe. As representatives of the Right they had just been reprimanded by their respective parties for accepting posts in a Daladier Cabinet. Premier Daladier was forced to replace them with Paul-Boncour in the War office and Mayor Paul Marchandeau of Rheims at the Treasury. This put the same old coalition of Socialists and Radical-Socialists back in power...
...jewels when going to the seaside in summer, not because they need the money but because there is no cheaper way to make their possessions safe. In nearly all cases pawnshop profits go to charity. Thus the Paris Crédit Municipal is known respectfully as "Le Mont de Piéte" (The Mount of Piety) and with flippant affection as "ma tante" (my aunt). On the day President Roosevelt closed every U. S. bank more than 500 U. S. citizens obtained cash from Paris' Aunt...
Good songs: "Let's Begin," "Alpha, Beta, Pi," "I'll be Hard to Handle." Typical line: "I wish I were in Russia. I'd put her on the Five Year Plan...