Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With whiskers and side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage...
...School students will tear themselves away from their ponderous tomes and spend an evening of frivolous enjoyment on March 22, when Ken Reeves and his orchestra will supply the music for a dance at the Hotel Continental...
...Connor's doubt about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear...
...cannot help wondering if Dean Pound would be so eager to extend the Law School course to four years, if he knew the grim tragedies that confront students on every side under the present three-year arrangement. Though the following tear-jerker won a $10. prize in the "Traveller" Love Letter Contest, its writer can scarcely feel repaid in cold cash for a loss so inestimable...
...allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive American civilization is a contribution to productive scholarship? Will it ever...