Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition to O'Brien's bill were a number of members of the Boston school committee. Superintendent Jeremiath E. Burke and Edward M. sullivan I 03 testified that text books for Boston schools are carefully selected and are free from prejudice...
Miller, competing for the New England Championship in the 40 yard dash, won the crown from J. J. Sullivan of Boston College by inches in five seconds flat. He later won third in the K. of C. dash. In the Mayor Curley mile, the feature event of the meet, Tibbetts ran a strong race in 4.30 although Larrivee and Hahn led him to the tape. Larrivee's time of 4.25 3-5 set a record for the Mechanics Building track. Jones with a handicap of four inches took second in the K. of C. high jump...
...policy. It was suggested that Mr. Kellogg's appointment is but temporary. This suggestion was made largely because of a general impression that Mr. Kellogg is not very able, that he is an indecisive, worrying, nervous little man, a capable lawyer but without much driving force. Mark Sullivan, one of the aldest of political observers, was inclined to discount this impression of the Secretary of State-to-be, declaring that the impression of timidity comes mainly from physical fidgetiness, that no one, saving only the late Boise Penrose, of Pennsylvania, ever stood up and gave battle so boldly...
Patience. It has long been the experience of diligent navigators that it is difficult to look through a folded-up telescope. Some similar difficulty was encountered in watching this capsule review of one of the best of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was produced at the tiny Provincetown Playhouse where three's a crowd on the stage and where the auditorium has all the lofty spaciousness of a doll's house. Necessarily, therefore, the "20 lovesick maidens we" of the opening chorus were reduced to ten, the dragoons enlistment was meagre, the orchestra minute and the vocal acrobatics tempered...
...considerable clique of Manhattan sages to whom Gilbert and Sullivan are the dual Messiahs of light musical entertainment, the values of the script and score were all-sufficient. To the casual wanderer seeking just a real good show, the miniature may seem in spots a trifle indistinct...