Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record that is far Starting with a defeat by the Navy in their opening game, the Tigers came up from behind in the next contest in time to beat Bowdoin, but in the following struggle with Holy Cross suffered a reverse. That was enough, however, to put the necessary punch into the Princeton players, and they proved their real power by chalking up ten straight victories. Whether they have since taken a slump, or whether their recent opponents have been far superior to their previous ones is hard to say, but their last three games have yielded only one victory...
...fantastic and amusing comedy, "Wurzel-Flummery", by A. A. Milne, editor of "Punch" and author of "Mr. Pun Passes By", will be the second of the trio. "Robert Crashaw", a dignified member of Parliament, played by F. DeN. Schroeder '24, is unexpectedly left a large sum of money, but under the condition that he should adopt the name "Wurzel-Flummery". To complicate matters his rival in Parliament, "Richard Meriton", played by R. T. Pell '24 is left an equal sum and under equal conditions. Miss Dorothy Somerset '21 of Radcliffe, as "Viola Crashaw", provides a happy solution to the problem...
...latest production of the 47 Workshop, one of the few that the general public has been privileged to see, has aroused a storm of suggestion an advice from the numerous critics in Boston and New York. These have been asking, in their reviews of "A Punch for Judy", a comedy of an American business man and his family, why the Workshop does not stick to a more artistic, more unusual type of play, that is in keeping with the present-day, conventional conception of high dramatic ideals. One perhaps not understanding the purpose of the Workshop, suggests a presentation...
...plot of "A Punch for Judy" opens in a small up-state town of New York. Jim Storey, a flourishing young lawyer, returns after a prolonged stay from home to find that his fiancee, Judy, has shifted her affections to Bryce Valentine, a poet, who, like many others of his calling, wanders about with his head in the clouds. Jim is rather amused at this state of affairs at first, but later rebukes the faithless Judy for her fickleness. She, in a rash moment, dares here former sweetheart to prevent her marriage to Bryce...
...Punch for Judy" given by the 47 Workshop players at the Tremont Theatre, Boston...