Word: played
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...
...novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters, The Extension and Reintegration of the Human Spirit through the Poetry, Mainly French and American, Since Poe and Baudelaire...
...Hessian Play" has been selected by the Harvard Dramatic Club as the annual Christmas miracle play, to be given this year on December...
...presentation of the miracle play is a custom which the Dramatic Club has carried on from year to year, one which affords students an opportunity to see a form of drama rarely produced nowadays. The cathedral background of the Germanic Museum, with its reproduction of the great arch of the cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany, forms an ideal setting for the performance...
...Ticknor is the greatest center I have ever seen play football... It was a good hard game, the kindwhich I believe football followers like to see." --Arnold Horween '21, Harvard head coach...