Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none too hospitable greeting to Aristophanes' two wandering Athenians who are searching for "some quiet, easy-going place where they can settle down and dwell in peace." After a struggle and a series of complications, Athenians and birds are finally united into "one big happy family" and the play ends with a marriage feast...
...House teams. Since the Associate Plan has been accepted for next year, the associate members will be added to the House teams and may even overcrowd them. At present there is an excellent division between the good minor sports athletes and the not-so-good House men who play sports for the fun of good exercise. Moreover the plan would make the House teams unbalanced, for there are usually more minor sports athletes in one House than another. For example, there are five out of the first six men on the Varsity tennis team in Eliot House...
Eliphalet Whorff Dennison's grandson, Henry Sturgis Dennison, is the present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room...
...Evans ($2.75). A first novel, this has two distinctions: 1) Author Wellman, newspaperman and ex-cowboy, is a Western historian, author of an excellent study of Indian war, Death in the Desert; 2) his Jubal Troop makes a fortune instead of leading a romantic life among scenes of gun play, escape, cattle rustling, prospecting, big-time gambling. Author Wellman's gratuitous moral: Jubal Troop's money-grabbing...
...Play was pushed vigorously into the visitors' territory during both periods with the Crimson showing superiority along the scrum line. Waters, Cook, and Wesselhoeft played a staunch game at the back positions...