Word: piper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who like to see an involved, if improbable, tale cleverly unraveled, Piper Paid should have genuine appeal. A near-suicide, two bogus psychiatric tricks and a great deal of hysterical acting by Edith Barrett wind up an anecdote whose moral seems to be that no matter how much devilment a woman may cause, if she suffers loudly enough she may be judged to have made recompense...
...supreme vaulting tradition. The squad is composed first of two top-notch veterans, Frank Schumann '35, Varsity football guard, and J. D. Woodberry '35; then the holder of the present Freshman record, Sophomore Emile Dubiel, who received All-American mention for his play at end this fall, T. F. Piper '36, H. A. Cook '37, A. K. Barcewicz '36, and two Freshmen, W. L. Pettingell and A. B. Carlson...
...Toyland. Ollie Dee (Hardy) and Stannie Dum (Laurel) are boarders at the establishment of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe. Her daughter, Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry), is being pursued by old Silas Barnaby who holds a mortgage on the Shoe. But she loves Tom-Tom the Piper's son, who periodically helps her find her lost sheep. To thwart the blundering efforts of Ollie and Stannie to prevent the apparently inevitable manage de convenance, Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear...
...tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
Combination Third Varsity and Varsity fifties crew; stroke, Reece; 7, Weld; 6, Knowles; 5, Islin; 4, Dunbar; 3, Piper; 2, Nichols; bow Pfaelzer; cox, Harmon...