Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-rate importation form Mars is the Classical Club's production of the Birds of Aristophanes. A combination of the imagination of Jules Verne and Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and otherworldly wildness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all colors of the rainbow,--it's impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants...
...clothes, by the way he carries himself, by his physical characteristics, Templeton judges him by the sounds he makes while he is walking and by the various intonations of his voice. While Mr. X is ordinarily classified as a rather dull, innocuous commuter, Templeton would rate him as a very flat A type, with not too much variation...
...Fred Clarke's Tigers do have the element of certainty in their lineup (unlike Yale), because Jack Gafaell at first, slugging Fritz Foote, Dick Purnell, and Bill Parsons are firmly entrenched in the four infield positions. Harry Powers is the first-string backstop, and the Tigers have two first-rate mound artists in Lefty Farber and Fred Rowe...
Coach Andy Coakley has a pretty fair ball club in New York this year representing the Blue of Columbia University, but the pitching is woefully weak and will have to be spread over the schedule very sparingly. And even the most optimistic observer would not rate the Lions as a real swash-buckling crew of sluggers, needing only fair twirling to win games...
...Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...