Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
...effect on the audience is one of choked, hysterical amusement, no tribute to wit, but a healthy, spasmodic reaction to shenanigans. Press Representative John Peter Toohey and Anne Morrison wrote the play, based on Mr. Toohey's short stories in Pictorial Review. Raymond Guion is Son Jones...
...field events which gave the Freshmen the short end of the score last year, and Andover is again strong in this department. In Moore, the schoolboys have a brilliant performer in both high jump and broad jump, and his chances are conceded to be excellent of capturing first place in both these events. Captain Houston entered for the shot, discus, and javelin, should also be watched this afternoon...
Under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club, a series of four "Open Nights" will be held at the Harvard Observatory, with the first meeting scheduled for this evening at 7.45 o'clock, when Professor E. S. King will deliver a short, non-technical talk on "The Moon." After his address there will be, weather permitting, telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the club...
News of the resignation of Dean Nichols adds another indication of the temporary character of the office he has held for the past two years. That the tenure of this position should be for a short period not only is backed up by a growing precedent, but it would appear to have several decided points in its favor. Occupancy of the Assistant Dean's office by a successive series of men fresh from their own undergraduate life insures youthful tone to a section of University Hall all too likely under ordinary circumstances to become a formidable monster in the eyes...