Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, may I sketch a meeting as held at any time this year? Two days before the date we receive a copy of the docket. At 10.30 we sit around the table, the President at the head. The Treasurer has placed before each of us two sheaves of paper: one, the list of changes of investments in the past two weeks by himself and the two members who compose the Finance Committee. These changes amount usually to several hundred thousand dollars. He has questions to ask about purchase of real estate, about important leases, and" internal problems of finance...
...great change in the type of production came in 1844 when it was decided to abandon the traditional mock trial which had been held yearly from 1795, in favor of a comical sketch. According to the report of J. T. Wheel-wright, who has left an account of this first performance, it was indeed an impromptu affair. The date picked was Friday the thirteenth and 11 Hollis Hall was converted into the stage. A large plank, slightly longer than the room, was bowed so as to serve for the footlights, boots were made of blackened cardboard, wigs and dresses were...
...opinion, it is the most important work of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It is filled with Mr. Connelly's curious fantasy and delicate humor?the same that promises to be in evidence when his new play opens in the autumn, that was notably apparent in the small sketch he recently wrote and acted in for The Dutch Treat Club Show, annual performance of that jour- nalists' and artists' society...
Last year Mr. Flagg came into the limelight with a particularly fine collection of caricature portraits of the speakers at the dinner, President Lowell, Professor Kirsopp Lake and J. T. Wheelwright falling victim to his facile pen. Mr. Flagg, however, did not forget himself, and published a brilliant sketch of himself, suitcase in hand, rushing for the Lampoon dinner. John T. Wheelwright '76, noted lawyer and trustee of the Lampoon, and Neal O'Hara '15, columnist of the Boston Traveler, are other speakers tonight, R. E. Summer '25, retiring Ibis, will be toastmaster...
...about this time that Colonel Mitchell read in the Review of Reviews a character-sketch of himself by Clinton W. Gilbert, famed correspondent of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' newspapers, in which Mr. Gilbert painted 1) the "unseemly spectacle" of an Army general telling, in moments opportune and inopportune, "how he could sink the entire U. S. Navy with one hand" and 2) the "unseemly spectacle" of "conservatism and stupidity charged with the keeping of the walls of safety about our land...