Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Green had read some telegrams, and committee head Robert E. Lane '39 had spoken a few words on how Harvard Indifference had been broken down, the featured speaker, movie star Cantor appeared. He was alternately intensely serious and extremely humorous...
...Most serious effect of the fire, which...
Last week Addie Belle and Annabelle were separated for the first time. Assistant Professor of Phonetics Marie Katherine Mason of Ohio State examined Addie Belle and reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf. She had suffered so long from hysteria which had deprived her of her voice that the condition was now chronic* and there was small chance she would ever leave her solitary world and participate in normal social life...
Among plays, many are copyrighted, but few are chosen. Of close to 5,000 registered with the Copyright Office each year, possibly 2,000 go the Broadway rounds, 500 receive serious consideration, 300 land their authors a contract. Of 100 to 200 that are produced, more than 75% flop, less than 10% become smash hits, two or three run into their second year, one wins a Pulitzer Prize...
...Swing Session with Benny Goodman (Victor). Twenty-four minutes of the most serious hot music now being blasted: eight sides, largely swing classics (Blue Room, 'S Wonderful...