Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hasty Pudding's 1936 production, is rapidly taking on a definite semblance to a tip-top musical comedy. Director Bill Holbrook has been rehearsing his choruses for three hours every night since the show started, and a marked improvement can be seen in both the routine members and in the singing...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg [Vice Chancellor of Austria, TIME, Feb. 10| . . . likes his wine and his women. But no one has ever seen him indulge in the former to excess. He is much too anxious to curry favor for himself and Austria in foreign capitals to have so far forgotten himself at George's funeral. And I don't care where your information to the contrary came from. I have studied the subject too much not to know that this...
...proves time and again that running contrariwise to nature has but one inevitable outcome-destruction. It may be pointed out that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world; but, once every four years man closes his eyes, woman dons the pants, the hand seen rocking the cradle is a hairy, masculine one, and the female claw still clutches its cherished function of ruling the world. Reason, if we may be allowed a quotation, totters...
...whether or not the female actually desires and appreciates this exchange of roles. How many tender romances have been spoiled because a shy young thing refuses the man of her choice in Leap Year, fearing lest her acquaintances think she has been the aggressor? How many ornithologists have seen the birds observing Leap Year? What pisciculturist would have the audacity to maintain that the fishes would alter their simple system of courtship for a mere convention...
...Nothing quite like this body has ever been observed before", said Dr. Shapley, "but since such objects can be seen only when they are very near the earth and when conditions are particularly right, we cannot say but what this sort of object may be common in the solar system...