Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently instituted 1936-37 squash season is now in full swing. The prospects for the Varsity are good, despite the fact that E. Rotan sargent, Richard W. Gilder, and Germaine G. Glidden, the latter being both the National and Intercollegiate champion, have graduated. It appears that the Varsity will have no particular individual stars, but a strong team...
Practice for a pair of indoor track meets is now in full swing under the direction of Jaako Mikkola in the two cages and on a board track laid down on Soldiers Field...
Guaranteed to ease the wandering student gently back into the rigour of academic life after the Thanksgiving respite, the current double bill at the University featuring "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and "Wives Never Know" starring Charley Ruggles and Mary Boland, is one of the most entertaining, and colorful of the year...
Anyone who has not yet seen "Swing Time" should correct that definitely. Containing some of the best music to which Astaire and Rogers have danced, it is not hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
...request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that killed Russell was fired from the rusty gun he clasped in his hand...