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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance of the audience and get it into a laughing mood...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...addresses will be illustrated by lantern slides, exhibitions of inventions, and lecture table demonstrations. The purpose of the series of lectures will be to show and stimulate interest in the newest and most interesting developments in applied science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE ENGINEERING SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

Dropping politics into the wastebasket along with another letter, "Bossy" withdrew education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

Both teams were equally matched, holding each other to a 0-0 score through two thirds of the game. Ten minutes after referee. Noonan had dropped the puck on the ice for the third period, the Harvard team began to show a concentrated attack on the schoolboy cage. In a spurt of team work, R. S. Ogden '31 flashed the puck to Watts, who lashed the dise into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 HOCKEY TEAM WINS FROM ST. MARK'S BY GOAL | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Ervine has shipped before the mast to be able to picture the sea in its violent moments and to know the ships that he has truthfully portrayed. Not only in the descriptions, but also in the feeling of loneliness and remorse felt by many sailors does Mr. Ervine show the real spirit of the sea. "The Wayward Man," is a salty novel and because of its strong plot and many colorful pictures, is a very fine story...

Author: By Edward PAGE Jr. ., | Title: THE WAYWARD MAN. By St. John Ervine. The Macmillan Co. New York, 1927. $2.50. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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