Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other performers during the evening included: Eric Victor, a dancer from the cast of "Inside U.S.A.," the Dunster Dunces and the Krockodiloes, both collegiate singing outfits; Ellis Traub '52, who played a musical saw; Hugh Shepley '51, a juggler; the Four Flats, a freshman barbershop quarter; and Marie McDonnell, New England Tributary Theater singer...
...quarter of a million automobiles jammed the streets, night and morning, lurching, braying and banging bumpers. Armies of men & women were late for work and late for supper. Retail business fell off, tempers were strained...
Past, he also left a voluminous correspondence. Now, after more than a quarter of a century, Mina Curtiss' selection of his letters (which the onetime Smith College associate professor has translated herself) makes most of them available in English for the first time...
...Perkins Hall parking lot is a disgrace to the alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain depth. On the surface of "Lake Perkins" float pieces of old lumber, clothing, garbage, and sundry other debris. A student auto bearing a Massachusetts license plate was recently mired in the middle of Lake Perkins for two weeks, blocking off the rest of the lot since a voyage across this atrocity...
...that Lionel Barrymore, an old whaling captain, can't take his grandson, Dean Stockwell, back to sea unless the latter passes his fourth grade examinations. Master Stockwell fails them, but a sympathetic principal fixes up the mark, thus permitting the boy to ship over. This takes care of a quarter of the film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their studio...