Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the bill at the University today and tomorrow is "The Music Goes Round," a hurriedly-concocted musical comedy which loses a great deal of the spice it might otherwise have contained as a result of the definite and sudden demise of its title song. Harry Richman, in the leading role, plays a famous stage and radio star who gets mixed up with "the last of the Mississippi showboats" and anonymously brings its cast to Broadway to amuse the sophisticated audience of his forthcoming, production. He falls in love with the heroine of the showboat's melodramas, who is also...
...those courses which use section men, there is a great variety in the systems of determining grades. But this variety, far from being the spice of life, is rather the fly in the undergraduate's ointment. Some courses have schemes which insure justice and impartiality. Others, however, make of each section man an arbitrary despot. The natural variation in the rigor of these lieutenants is translated into a vast difference among the standards obtaining within a single course. Distinctions among students of the same merit necessarily follow...
Unlike any previous Hasty Pudding show, the action will not be laid at Harvard. Feeling that "variety is the spice of life," McKennan and his committee decided to trace instead the vagaries of some Sons of the Founder after they had gone forth in the world...
...Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked up a knowledge of boxing that later stood him in good stead. Because he wanted an outdoor job, and some-thing with an adventurous spice in it, he decided to be a mining engineer. After three years in Germany, at the Freiberg Royal School of Mines, he went back to the U. S. West to seek his fortune...
...that compared with last year's dress parade of the Michael Mullins Club. I was pleased to see so many intelligent faces in the public prints. Mr. Hearst should note that you, and not the United States Senators who voted "no" really saved the country. Your parade also provided spice for jaded collegians, a praiseworthy action...