Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Toes devotes its first act to kidding a Russian ballet. Ballet dancers' Broadway reputation for arrogance, jealousy and venery offers, like a clown's buttocks, a large and ludicrous target for whacking. Three modern masters of whacking, George Abbott (who staged this season's side-splitting Boy Meets Girl) and Rodgers & Hart (who supplied Jumbo's score) have done so with authority. The finale of On Your Toes' Act I, in which disaster strolls implacably through a conventional ballet, will make it impossible for many people ever again to take the serious Dance seriously...
...target for preliminary tax argument the witnesses appearing this week have a set of recommendations whacked together by a Ways & Means subcommittee. All their prayers and protests, all their facts and fancies will probably fail to change the following prime provisions of the House bill...
...hundreds of U. S. college students, the Reserve Officers Training Corps, compulsory in most land grant colleges, means the preparation of young men for death on a battlefield. For thousands more, the R. O. T. C. means an itchy uniform, tedious target practice, tiresome drills. Whether through idealism or indolence, opponents of the R. O. T. C. last week made trouble on both coasts...
...Waldinger, in the net for Braeburn, must have felt like the swinging target in a shooting gallery, for the Braeburn team, without substitutes to relieve them, were unable to stand up under the power of fresh Harvard attacks, and the goalie was continually peppered with bullet shots. Dick Claflin, on the other hand, did a good job on the Harvard defensive protecting Ash Emerson from the shots of the clubmen...
...President Kirkland in the first artistic landscaping undertaken in the Yard eliminated the beer barrels and the untidy wood yard, but the pump remained as a gathering place for students and an object of hilarious pranks, until 1901, when it was destroyed, an easy target for a "Med Fac" exploit...