Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerald Cornell, Frederic Hughes' "Life's a Villain" gets its first run anywhere at the Repertory Theatre this week. This play is one of these divided things which never quite decides what it is to be, social commentary or romantic comedy. The major theme of rich boy meets poor girl--or poor rich boy meets rich poor girl--has class overtones occasionally, but only every so often. Usually it is just the amusing and quite classless angle which is stressed, though sometimes the play seems to consider itself as a social...
Eliot House news-gobblers have been dragging their poor dining-room paper-vendor for a block of brick smokehouses during the last few weeks...
...footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
...dinner in the House and afterwards to my Attic to smoke for a minute, when H--and I go off again--to the movies. Franchot Tone very amusing, poor ex-idol Clark Gable on the way down hill. On the way home talk about Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood"--wish they would remake "Robin Hood". With anybody but Fred March. So to bed at no later than eleven for a sweet night's sleep...
...long view. Our athletic endowment is far in the future, when we shall meet only Yale. But until then, there seems small need to apply additional pressure to our poor gladiators--they play a hard enough schedule as it is. Even the cash interest hadn't ought to force them to work harder. It should be remembered that it is not the "Princetonian" editors who play a big game every Saturday...