Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrowing was his tale. When be became president, he found the college newspaper and student offices run by a leftist minority, the college's huge (14.000) student body without faculty guidance, assembly hall or space for extracurricular activities. He decided to hold student elections in classrooms, make everybody vote. Result: anti-Communists captured 17 of 20 places in the student council. Day of the election, leftists staged a peace demonstration. At an appointed hour, demonstrators suddenly blew whistles in college corridors, rushed into classrooms shouting: "Don't scab on peace." Promptly suspended were the demonstration's sponsors...
Legg not only jackknifes over eleven barrels but also leaps through a revolving, flaming ring. There is fairy-tale comedy by a family of three Penguins, and the pratt-fall school of wit is upheld by numerous masters of the padded backside. Just when it seems impossible that skating can be any funnier, the Swiss team of Frick & Frack appears and remains in graceful motion while drooping backwards so far that their heads nearly sweep the rink...
...this week's Army and Navy Journal, the Air Corps's Major General Henry H. Arnold passed on the following tale from a U. S. military observer in Great Britain...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
...Fife, formerly of the Tale Gallery in London, will give a free public lecture today at 6 o'clock in the Fogg Museum...