Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
...coats were given their earliest workouts, wind-defying cosmetics were tested, feet tapped tentatively on chill concrete against the afternoons when they will be all but frozen. Six hundred thousand by authentic estimate crammed themselves around the 15 leading games ?Notre Dame-Navy, Penn-Penn State, and Stanford-Southern California assembling 60,000 each...
...southern college is believed to have tried and discarded a similar uniform last year, according to The Dartmouth, but this reported failure has not deterred the Green from trying in a regular game a uniform which has been used in practice with satisfactory results...
...University of Southern California, Freshmen coeds, were set to scrubbing sidewalks, in accordance with tradition. ¶ At the University of Wisconsin, famed for its journalistic educator President Glenn Frank, for its great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair...
Moscow approved The Bat. The Tsar saw the show; invited M. Balieff to dinner. Came 1917 and revolution. In 1919 Nikita Balieff was jailed because he "was not consented with their views on poltique." He pointed his fingernails and skulking behind a long square beard escaped to Georgia (southern Russia) as a Persian...