Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Tsar Boris went to Prague and attended a performance of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The manager of the theatre, glancing through a prompt copy of the play, noticed that the scene was laid in Bulgaria, and read the line: "My father never had a bath in his life." Bulgaria was hastily changed to Albania, and the performance was given with great success...
...said it: that calisthenics (his profession) is a commercial exploitation of people's desires to keep fit; that people should better walk far at 4 m.p.h., play tennis and golf, swim, ride horseback, tramp, hike; that for "physical illiterates" setting up exercises are good; that his getting up exercises were better...
...Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy...
...Conductor Stokowski explained: "I am going to have them conduct at rehearsals. The plan has other interesting possibilities. Often the first player of an instrument will wish to conduct. This will result not only in giving him the experience he desires but in enabling the second player to play first and the third player to play the second instrument. Thus all will gain in experience." Disinterested music-lovers eyed the experiment with interest. Philadelphians whispered that it was only a gesture by a haughty man, that Conductor Stokowski's orchestra was rising at last against his regime and this...
...intending to play intramural tennis should go to either Harry Cowles' Shop or to Leavitt and Peirce's and sign up in the blue books for the class tournaments. Entries will close Thursday and play will start immediately. Each class will have its own tournament and the high men will form a class team. A round robin schedule has been arranged for the three class teams. The members of the winning team of this league will receive their class numerals...