Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...premiere in Manhattan almost exactly 20 years ago. This symphony in one movement represents a day in the composer's life; it has three leading themes, representing Papa, Mama and the Baby. The Baby's theme is the noisiest, and comes to the fore particularly in a spot which represents...
...Friends. A rather machine-made story of artists' life, in which Lou Tellegen is represented as hypnotizing a "friend" (who stole his wife) to commit suicide on Christmas eve, and then hypnotizing him out of it, by sheer power of the Tellegen will and smoldering eyes. A high spot is a Greenwich Village ball, in which great fun prevails when one of the revelers spanks the others with a waiter's tray...
Somewhat inured, this winter, to comparative athletic misfortune, the University may well accept Saturday's results as on the whole auspicious, and in themselves worthy of celebration. The great effort of the baseball men was not the only bright spot. The victories of the freshmen, of the tennis team, and of the light crews rounded out a day as nearly perfect as four triumphs over Princeton, and only one defeat could make...
...should give Mr. Sinclair some satisfaction to realize that there is one garden spot on the map of intellectual American where young men are keen enough to perceive their danger when the freedom of their professors is threatened. Apparently not all students are willing performers in that universal goose-step which he so deplores. The strike at Millikin, one of the main features of which is the insistence of the undergraduates upon a free hand for the faculty in matters of instruction seems to indicate that the youth of the country is partially aware of the value of an education...
...victory over Tufts 1927 is the high spot of the Exeter season so far. Moran, who hit three times in three trips to the plate, and Hunt, who hit twice in three chances, were the stars of the game. In this game, the bad fielding that had marked the 12 to 9 defeat by Brown 1927, in an earlier game, was noticeably absent. The Brown game was hopelessly lost in spite of Exeter's heavy hitting, by seven miscues...