Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vocal unit under W. R. Chase '26 will take the place of the University Glee Club this evening, and will render several selections of popular airs. The evening will be featured by the soft-shoe dancing of G. B. Moynahan '26, to the accompaniment of the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...
...Europe. "In England," Mr. Lloyd-Jones told the CRIMSON, "there has usually been begging in the larger cities. Not only is this so since the war; it has always been more or less the case. But here in America we have seen very little begging or selling of shoe-laces on the streets." "Briefly," supplemented Mr. R. H. Bernays, "your rich are not so rich, and your poor are not so poor. In this country there is not the tremendous inequality that exists in Europe...
...result of shifting the world's money center from Britain to America has been the investment of American funds in London. Formerly British investments in New York brought with them, to some extent, British architecture and social and business customs. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and the invasion of London by the dollar is accompanied by the introduction of American engineering and American habits and customs...
...large number of students, it is evident that much of what passes for education at Harvard, is mere juggling of dead facts; and that both professors and students who year after year go through the farce of repeating the performance might better employ their time in peddling shoe laces...