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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he went out for the Leverett House football team. Unfortunately Mollenhoff chanced to be a one-time captain of the Drake varsity football team, and after a scrimmage or two he was rule "too processional for the House league." Mollenhoff hopes he'll at least be able to play basketball...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Harvard Pleases Nieman Fellows | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...Ross, assistant Union athletic secretary, said the basketball season will be divided into two halves. During the first half, which begins Wednesday of next week, there will be two leagues of eight teams apiece, roughly approximating the touch football leagues. League winners will play each other some time before Christmas recess in order to determine the fall Yard championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Intramural Basketball Teams Begin Practice Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

Director Robert C. Seaver '50 announced that Miss Dhunjiboy had been signed and that the rest of the casting has been completed. The play opens in Sanders Theater on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Picks 9 for 'Antigone' Parts | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Guardsman" is the Ferene Molnar play in which the Lamis made their first hit in 1924. It is set in pre-World War 1 Vienna and concerns a celebrated acting couple who find that their love has grown cold after six months of married life. The husband decides to impersonate a Russian guardsman and woo his wife in disguise. To his consternation, he finds he is successful. Of such sophisticated nonsense is "The Guardsman" made...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Though I have never seen the Lamats in this play, I'm afraid I was occasionally haunted on opening night by their specters. Miss Farrand and Mr. Fletcher are polished and talented actors and need no apologies made for their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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