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Word: suggesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the course that you advocate, like the tyranny of Apollinaris, can lead only to the exploitation of the true student by those who have no finer sensibilities. The narrow and bigoted point of view that you maintain comes as a surprise to one who has always placed Harvard's intellectual preeminence above all other considerations. Is it not obvious that, at least to thinking people, in some small part the fame of the university is due to the non-athletic portion of the community? Not only must we witness the coarsening of the intellectual fibres of "college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...actors all wear denim overalls. "The plot," says Observer Houghton. "is the old triangle situation, a man. his wife and her lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Report from Moscow | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...general feel satisfied with the plan as it affects you? If not please explain your objections. Can you suggest any improvements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUESTIONNAIRES MAILED TO STUDENT EMPLOYEES | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut. Well, we went ''round and around," but it didn't work; I didn't catch on. Finally, in exasperation, he shouted, "Confound you, can't you see what I'm trying to suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...does not mean to suggest that Dr. Noyes has merely made the best of a bad subject, for that would be untrue. He throws no end of light upon the manners and customs of by-gone ages when the stage was an important avenue of culture, with no competitors for popular esteem such as the opera or the movies. "Theatrical reminiscence", according to Max Beerbolun, "is the most awful weapon in the armory of old age", but when a young scholar wields it one can endure...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/26/1936 | See Source »

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