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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though there are those who do care about athletic trophies. You are never embarrassed because you don't give a damn whether Dunster wins that old athletic trophy or not. It is a matter of considerable pride with us that there is no artificially stimulated House spirit of any sort whatsoever...
Anyone watching rugby who is unaquainted with its rules and regulations is completely mystified. It is sort of a combination between soccer and football, with all the ruggedest and most tiring features of the two games incorporated. There are 15 to a team, but there are no substitutions and no delays. You run and run right through each forty minute half if you play. Anyone, whether a forward or a back, can carry the ball. There is tackling--but no interference; regular play--but no signals...
...Leningrad the Davieses sat in the same Great Opera Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
...Snatch claims that a State line cannot be crossed presumptively. ... In law anything may be done presumptively. . . . Since the law does not know that Snatch did not cross the State line, it is perfectly proper to assume that he did. . . . If presumptions of this sort were not permitted district attorneys might be put to considerable trouble to prove their cases. We are not unmindful of certain theoretical difficulties inherent in presuming that State lines have been crossed. For example, it would never do to presume that the United States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could...
...starts with a battle and ends with a siege. The body of the picture contains a massacre, a fight between a bear and a man, two horse-whippings, several murders, the spectacle of an executioner drawing a red-hot sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding...