Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time wears on, however, Miss Lake finds that her fame is eclipsed by Mr. Whiting in the new talkies, a field of endeavor which a slight lisp makes impossible...
...race. The probably Crimson runners will be Vernon Munroe '31, Record, J. H. Pearson '32, and N. P. Dodge '32, H. F. Kollmeyer '33 may be substituted at the last minute for either Pearson or Dodge. The Harvard quartet defeated Yale last Saturday in fast time and is a slight favorite over the Ithaca and Hanover teams. Andrews, Pratt, Noyes, and Simpson will carry the Dartmouth baton. It will take exceptional performance on the part of the visitors to beat the Harvard four. The Cornell four, consisting of Captain Elmer, Fletcher, Proctor, and Corlett, is not expected to figure...
...other picture on the bill is "Stampede" which happens to be an interesting photograph of jungle life. The picture is silent, although a weak musical score has been added. It has appeared in this vicinity before but in spite of its slight age, is quite worth seeing. The continuity of a plot is worked out with surprising effectiveness and the atmosphere of "darkest Africa" is quite skillfully created. Compared with the opus of Mr. Shaw, it would seem that there is something in the primitivistic movement in spite of Mr. Babbitt...
While Fisticuffer Max Schmeling, "heavyweight champion of the world," was talking with a group of friends in the Commodore Hotel Lobby in Manhattan, a slight, 19-year-old boy approached him. thrust out a paper and said: "Here's a summons for you." Then he dropped the paper at the fighter's feet. What happened then is told by him in a legal deposition: "Schmeling. his face working in anger, yelled at the top of his voice and then . . . grabbed the seat of my trousers and violently rushed me to the stairway, shaking me in all directions...
...that. It would be a lot more convenient to be established permanently on some nice inexpensive location in the city, like the Biltmore, and not have to rush back to New Haven every so often for classes. One can hardly blame the Yale undergraduates for resorting to some slight deception for the accomplishment of such an end. But those at Harvard who are heard to mumble something about "unfair competition" have no call to be jarred from their habitual indifference. Temporary fads like that are common enough at Yale. They even abolished mid-year examinations a little while...