Word: rut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flower of the Night. Pola Negri has slipped into a rut. All of her recent characterizations have been deeply seductive, heavingly emotional. In this one she is the daughter of a Mexican Don who falls in love with a New England youth, who has invaded the West to manage his dead father's mine. She is still a widely popular if a somewhat restricted actress. She plays Pola Negri as well as ever, and that in itself is probably a sufficient accomplishment...
...this moment a second bear gave a grunt of ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds...
...this is supposed to be very funny, and now and then it attains its end. The rest of the time it jogs contentedly along in the rut deepened by many farces. The acting is generally second rate...
...University lacrosse team meets Yale at New Haven today in the final and most important game of the season. The University twelve, under Coach Lydecker's tutelage, has succeeded in rising out of the rut of defeat and has been victorious in five of its six scheduled games this season. Among the teams which the Crimson has defeated are Colgate, Union, Princeton and the New York Lacrosse Club, all strong combinations. A powerful Syracuse team won from the University only after a very hard fought battle...
...altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called `The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice,' or `The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates,' ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should be undergraduates alone, but I think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership...