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...edge of the Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William Fellows...
Concerned with the doings of a fairly typical Long Island house party, "The Lid's Off" marches along smoothly from the opening to closing chorus. Gasper G. Bacon, Jr. '37, cast in the role of Mrs. Hoopercliffe, ably brings to life a scatter-brained flighty matron, who manages in her own inimitable style the various baby benefits which run all through the play...
...Modern Times". True, it is all about factory workers, strikes, red demonstrations, public hospitals, and jails. But if you remember that you are watching lowly-born moderns struggling through today's sea of sorrows, while Mr. Chaplin is doing his level best to scatter your attention over a vast series of ingenious gags, you can also study the differential calculus in the proverbial boiler-factory...
...next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international goodwill lost during three years of Naziism. The whole country had been carefully primed to play the perfect host to the visiting athletes from 28 nations, who, Germans fondly hoped, would afterward scatter to the world as friendly missionaries for the Third Reich...
Drought and Depression cost Farmer Campbell $600,000 from 1929 to 1934, cut his wheat plantings to 20,000 acres. They also gave him time to think. Through long Montana winters he saw his expensive machinery and skilled workmen standing idle. Why not, he asked himself, scatter crops in other climates, harvest the year round by sending his machines and men after the sun? Matching his equipment, experience and Government credit rating with outside money, Tom Campbell leased 14,000 fertile, irrigated acres in San Joaquin Valley. When his caravan arrives this week, he plans to begin planting...