Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for the timekeeper's gun, sent the players to the sidelines. They tooted piccolos during timeouts, chanted A-well-a-take-um-a-Joe (crapshooters' lullaby...
...symphonies for Manhattan's Friends of Music. Said he: "I shall not say I am sorry to give up opera." To replace him the Metropolitan imported an unknown named Josef Rosenstock. After five of Rosenstock's feeble exhibitions of batonistic piddle-paddle, Manhattan critics howled him down, sent him scurrying back where he came from. General Manager Gatti-Casazza persuaded Bodanzky to return. For ten more years he went on conducting Wagnerian opera...
...dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...
...little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...years ago, shocked into action by the silicosis scandal of Gauley Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...