Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thank you enough. Ever since I read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile the haughty dames with the haggard, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving horde that fought well but didn't put on half so good a show as we get today from its descendants. Pardon me while I go out and wave a red flag so our friends can call an indignation meeting...
...broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here is to turn out anything more than unenterprising pedants who will perpetuate the hollow tradition of the Latin requirement, the Classics department must step lively. It must show itself worthy of the comparatively large budget bestowed upon it-which alone indicates the University's realization of the potential importance of the Classics...
There was talk of setting up pup tents on the turf, but no action. Several students made tents of their raincoats and tried to entice less fortunate Radcliffe girls to share their shelter. The girls defiantly lit cigarettes to show that they, at least, knew how to handle rain...
...Pins and Needles," the Labor Stage musical review put on by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, is a merry miscellany of comic sketches, music, and dance, properly shot through with social significance, but with no especially grim grinding of axes. Insofar as the show is a vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...
...distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American, and the Federal Theatre, with its repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most fun of the whole show, however, is the scene called Economics I, in which the elementary principles are set forth by having the banker shoot in the pants, the manufacturer, who breaks a victrola record over the head of the wholesaler, who somehow arouses the retailer, who squirts fizz water in the face...