Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bugs Ahearn. Simultaneously Bugs Ahearn learns that his new brokerage business is dishonestlv bankrupt, that his fiancee is unfaithful. He imports his entire Chicago staff, sells back the brokerage business with the aid of machine guns, gets engaged to his secretary, turns his private polo field into a playground for his gunmen. Briskly directed by Roy Del Ruth, all this makes a highly satisfactory addition to the Robinson series on racketeers at work and play, at home and abroad-a series which may eventually be regarded as the most interesting and most typical in the U. S. cinema...
...Thomas went and stayed all afternoon. . . . . . . Educated for the law, Thomas practiced not at all in Oklahoma-developed a summer resort at Medicine Park in the Wichita foothills near Lawton-made plenty money during the War when Fort Sill billeted 40,000 recruits and Medicine Park was the nearest playground. Not enthusing over the Senator's suggestion that this legislation may transfer $200,000,000,000 from those who hath to those who hath not, nor leading the claque for inflation, I still believe that Thomas deserves much credit, has displayed great political ability, good diplomacy and lifted himself...
Harvard classes in Greek and Latin do not often provide a playground for vague or capricious thinking. They often seem very dull. This is a point for or against the Classics, as you please. It is probably both. I should suggest in favor of the former view that the labor of translating accurately is not an aid to misunderstanding and consequently misapplying what our contemporaries have to say. On the other hand, the study of the Classics being chiefly a matter of assimilation, if a man confines himself to the work assigned he may pass honorably through four years...
...gracing the ultra-official roster of the Houses. But the legal insistence upon the names of George, James, and Persist Smith is one of the more fortunate accidents in the errant science of nomenclature. For today, the Kirkland House preserves intact the heritage of its days as a Freshman playground. From any point of view it is on the periphery of the House plan: its mundane quadrangle embraces an independence and unity which others have sought vainly to inspire; it has developed its own institutions and customs; generally speaking, it ignores, and is ignored by, the rest of the system...
...District Deeds, dated November 23, and being numbered 137 of that date. This latest addition to the University's land holdings completes Harvard ownership of all land along the nothern side of Memorial Drive from Eliot House to the Cambridge Electric Light Company, with the exception of a public playground between Dunster House and the Maintenance Department location...