Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five engines and a small crowd of 200 persons gathered within a short time. Mocking cries of "Fire" added to the ire of the fire company until threats of the hose dampened the enthusiasm of those looking on from the nearby windows...
...second period found the Crimson players still on the offensive. Captain O'Conuell led the onsiasgot with two goals, and was soon followed by Wenner and Rex, all three men working up a total of three baskets each in short order...
...burden of lifting the average of the present issue above the level of discreditable mediocrity falls entirely upon the efforts of Mr. Walter Edmonds and Mr. B. N. Parker Jr., who, with a short story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your...
...past few years. He is the composer of "Coquette" and has written tunes and scores for various musical shows at Harvard and elsewhere. His latest composition is "Lawribel" which is now being played by various dance orchestras although it will not be released to the public for a short time...
...have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better said than countless others have said them. In other words, "Caprice" while an amusing play is one which falls considerably short of being worthy stuff either as parlor comedy or as straight social problem drama...