Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unpleasantness of eating around. If the atmosphere in the Houses approximates even to a limited degree the attractiveness hoped for by its well-wishers, no great loss will be suffered if these clubs do go out of existence. Some financial embarrassment will no doubt be felt and a certain small group of persons made to suffer where suffering is not deserved. It is particularly unfortunate that the large minimum board charge required by the College will undoubtedly direct the resultant ill feeling at the House System and those responsible...
...giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
...interpretation of the origin of the asteroids, those thousands of tiny bodies that circulate around the sun in orbits between those of Jupiter and Mars, leaves much to be desired. Are they fragments of one or more small planets broken up by collision, or are they the wreckage of a planet that came too near to the gigantic Jupiter? Persistent observation and the development of mathematical theories should in time solve this mystery...
Enthusiastic dance-addicts crowded Symphony Hall 'Tuesday evening, to see the first Boston appearance of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, (pronounced, incidentally, Yorghi). Small wonder at the enthusiasm, because this German couple came heralded with more superlatives than usual,--the leading exponents of the Modern Dance, the world's greatest dancers...
...spite of an unusually small vote, extremely close results in the contests for four of the seven positions marked the first series of elections held yesterday by the Senior Class...