Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer was not that Chicago had lost its mind, but that the play's leading man was acting up. Moreover, he was not just any leading man, but the great John Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the theatre, not sure of his legs, not sure of his lines, but certain that he could put on a good show of some sort. "Yep," says the doorman, "he arrives every night, dead or alive...
Sometimes, when he can't remember his lines, he delivers an address on how embarrassing it is to lose your memory. Once, unable to stand up, he played all through the show sitting down. Another time, when he couldn't even issue from dressing room to stage, he said: "Get me a wheel chair, I'll play Lionel...
Captain Don McNicol will lead the '42 squad into action from his left half position. His running mate at the other halfback slot is Caleb Loring. Morton Waldstein will play in the full back post and Dave Goldthwaite will be at quarter
...wrong, the record is good. The arrangement is played in a far cleaner manner than the 1934 Lunceford band could do (although the same wouldn't be true today), but it settles once and for all the argument as to whether all a band needs to play good swing is a bunch of musicians that can read and play section well, and a good arranger. The answer is gently but firmly...
Harvard's great tenure battle is entering a new and more active stage. Yesterday morning the matter was first reported by metropolitan daily newspapers (hitherto Time has been the only publication to touch it), and it is certain that the coming salvos of publicity will force the Administration to play a different sort of game. Moreover, there has been intensified action on a number of University fronts; although none of the recently issued statements alters one whit the positions which have been previously taken...