Word: runge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is justification, however, in the argument that the present regime tends to overemphasize the value of these printed works when considering the Who's who for Promotion. The rising young pedagogue who hopes to negotiate one more rung on the educational ladder is quite aware that, in some form or another, be it a rehashed obscurantism or a highly specialized bit of laboratory research, a book bearing his name on the title-page and the Harvard University Press imprimatur on the fly-leaf is a necessary footstool. Naturally, under such conditions it is unfair to criticize the youthful Ph.D...
Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...
...condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining out of the whole mess is that the curtain has finally been rung down--on the "Dunster House Bookshop Case" and on the "Watch and Ward...
...only definite clue in the hands of the investigators, it is said, was the report of one of the Harvard special police force that he had heard the Lampoon bell ringing at four o'clock in the morning. As the bell is customarily rung only on initiation nights, he decided to investigate the case. Approaching the building, he said, he perceived a car with Connecticut license plates, and containing several occupants, bear away from the side door at a high rate of speed...
...sseldorf airport last week cheered while Daredevil Willie Hundertmark stood up in his plane, seized and clung to a rope ladder suspended from a second plane flying above him. Intermittently, for a half-hour, they continued to cheer while, with Daredevil still dangling from the bottom rung, the plane swooped and circled low. Then with horror they saw that the acrobat was tangled in the ladder, was too exhausted to free himself. Rescuers tried to snatch the swinging body but it was tangled too badly. The plane had to land. Daredevil Willie Hundertmark was dragged to death...