Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process. Dean Donham, in an interesting study of how the times have changed, numbers among the ravages the introduction of the fearful cafeteria. Granting that this soul-killing institution does devastate many a good, home-bred stomach, there be defenders who may well argue that it is better to snatch and run at a cafeteria, than to snatch elsewhere and not be inclined or able to run. The pre-one-arm-chair days have not an unsmirched history. Their graces, sung oblivious to the facts, are those with which time seems to invest almost everything...
...seemed as though the uneasy head of King Tut would be emblazoned on our banners of amusement. But the Russians were on the scene, well up in their lines, on the scene and shrewdly shepherded, and consequently the Egyptian did fairly well in dress fabrics, but was unable to snatch the torch of drama from Stanislavski. Yet there is not that maudlin excitement over the pilgrims from Petrograd which prevailed a year ago. If you casually remark to your laundrywoman that Stanislavski and Balieff will be back on Broadway her enthusiasm will scarcely unhinge her to the point of crowning...
...interesting article in Musical America, apropos of the Centenary of Home, Sweet Home, relates that the melody of that famous song is an old Italian tune. Payne, who wrote the lyric, heard a peasant girl in Italy singing a lovely snatch of song. He wrote down the notes, and afterward adapted his verses to it. Curiously, when Donizetti wanted a typical English melody for his opera Anna Bolena, he chose Home, Sweet Home, not knowing that it was not English in origin, but as Italian as his own compositions...
...snatch brief space to reenforce the sentiments expressed indirectly in a CRIMSON editorial Thursday concerning Walter Hampden? The company of which this very worthwhile actor is the leader came into Boston during the Christmas vacation, consequently its plans and whereabouts are not too well known by members of the University. For the remainder of this week it intends to give at the Boston Opera House some of the great plays from Shakespeare, with one or another pieces thrown in for certainly varied and perhaps balanced entertainment. The company although not a notable one is thoroughly creditable and quite capable...
Burke, best of the Crimson runners this year, is expected to win the mile while Sanborn, who took third in last year's meet should get second. Bennett ought to snatch third place, with Poor of Tech giving him some close competition...