Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem he could not ignore confronted Dean Hawkes when, after months of quiet sleuthing, Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's Spectator and another senior presented him with evidence of "financial irregularities" in the management of two student dances. Object of the charges was their classmate Robert M. Tierney, editor-in-chief of the Columbian (yearbook), senior member of the Student Board of Representatives, last year's president of his class. Last week Dean Hawkes announced that he had asked Senior Tierney "not to register for the spring session...
...Dean William Hane Wannamaker. Because he had not been present to preside, he had voided the trial of a student offender by the students' Pan-Hellenic (interfraternity) Council. Next day the campus rumbled ominously. Just before midnight some 1,500 students clumped grimly into the university gymnasium, heard quiet, studious Joseph T. Shackford, president of the Student Council, urge them to be orderly but determined. Jack Dunlap, football captain-elect, announced that the rebels would take over next morning's assembly period to present grievances...
...booed. He sat mousy quiet while Student President Shackford read out the following demands...
...squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued at the end, after being condemned to death. One touch of war is thrown in. A German regiment, worshipping in an open...
...suit, Dartmouth went outside its alumni ranks to pick Earl Henry (''Red'') Blaik, a graduate of West Point where he has been backfield coach for seven years. Head Coach Gar Davidson rated Blaik the real strategist behind Army plays. Like Pond he is quiet, more of a teacher than a driver. College of the City of New York last week hired as head coach Benny Friedman, Michigan's All-American quarterback who retired from professional football last season, replacing Dr. Harold J. Parker, able dentist-coach...