Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class of 1934 are as follows: Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recent winner of the Coolidge Prize for public speaking; Malcolm Arthur Hoffman '34, of White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour Marcus Peyser '34, of New York City; and Benjamin Ginsberg, of Daytona Beach, Florida. Two upper-classmen were elected to membership: Jerrold Harold Ruskin '33, of New Rochelle, New York and George Edward Lodgen '32, of Malden. These...
...well as from the Radcliffe Choral Society, presented a long list of choruses for the enthusiastic audience, giving to the swinging rhythms and agitated choral comments a delicate interpretation par excellence. In clearness of enunciation, which is so important for the true enjoyment of the Gilbertian witticisms, and in rapid shading of tone and prompt assertive entrances so inherent in the music, the chorus did outstandingly well. Singing with enthusiasm which nevertheless was confined to tonal and not physical motions, the chorus interpreted the ringing operettas with much success, while Dr. Davison lent his hand with the accompaniments to trace...
Subway Express (Columbia). Murder, and the detection of the murderer, in a subway train full of passengers in its run between 14th and 145th Streets, Manhattan, was accomplished by the authors of this piece with such credibility and pace, bit-part humor and rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
Once again the members of a Harvard Debating Team are to read speeches in a radio debate. The short time allowed to each speaker and the need to hold an impersonal audience by rapid appeals to the attention make necessary set, memorized speeches. The sacrifice is made for the sake of the radio, which like the talkies is supposed to stand for progress...
Causing considerable commotion in the Yard at noon last Saturday was the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Japan, who have been staying in Boston, and who made a rapid tour of the University that day. Before luncheon with President Lowell the distinguished foreign visitors made an inspection trip about the University, after lunch inspecting Lowell House...