Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...
...another expedition Frémont saw the Oregon Trail as busy as a barnyard in mating season, crossed the snow-deep Sierras in midwinter, visited Captain Suiter's fort in the fertile Sacramento valley. Ideas of manifest destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled...
...Reuter '28, playing number 3, kept his record for the season clean by chalking up the only University victory...
...first defeat of the season for the Crimson poloists. With one defeat and three victories to their credit they stand tied with the Optimists, with whom the play off for the Indoor Polo League Championship will take place...