Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past two seasons, Giddens has filled the right wing position on the first Harvard forward line and his performances have marked him as one of the most outstanding players of Crimson ice history. Well grounded in the Canadian style of play, the captain-elect has proved to be equally efficient on the offensive and defensive. He first sprang into the limelight last year when his covering of Palmer, Yale ace, was one of the main reasons for his team's victories over the Blue in the 1928 series. In the first game against the Elis this last season...
...Treaty of Trianon has prescribed the right of Hungary to the language and education of her minorities. Nevertheless it is for the most part stultified by the stipulation of the law whereby Roumanians (Hungarians and former Hungarian citizens) who have "forgotten" their mother tongue must send their children to Roumanian schools. And the same situation obtains in Czeckoslovakia and Jugoslavia. It means that the Hungarian schools in these three countries step by step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied...
ACTION-C. E. Montague-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Director and constant contributor to the Manchester Guardian, the late C. E. Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short...
...object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment will not be inflicted unless he deems it deserved. This is in keeping with the main point of the Decalogue which is that it is absolutely necessary to believe that M. Mussolini is always right. On the whole, the hopeful youths of 1919 seem to have aged rather rapidly...
...first stepped on the stage. Why, I was trembling so much, I'm afraid they must have thought I was trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff...