Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frequent variations in its dogma of selection have resulted in the decline of the Harvard Dramatic Club as an independent stage organization. For some reason the executive staff is always unbending in its rules; the period previous to 1924 saw the Club presenting only plays of foreign authors, never before produced in America; the next few years introduced authors of this nation, but slowly turned from straight drama given by students to a semi-professional cast and a repertory either sensational or frankly song-and-dance. The disturbances of last December caused, for this season at least, the abolition...
...there an unusual incident which has occurred over that long period, but it is easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand at the gallows for an hour with a rope about his neck, and then submit to a severe whipping...
...Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are that when Herr Matthias Erzberger entered the Allied Generalissimo's staff car at the head of the German Armistice Commission to sue for peace, he was pointedly ignored by Foch who remarked to his staff: "Who are these gentlemen? What do they want...
Royal was the welcome extended to Royal Belgians last week in Manhattan. Prince Albert de Ligne and his Ambassadorial staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...