Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bolles will open the meeting with some general remarks, and Captain Dudley Talbot '39 will also speak. Bert Haines, coach of the 150's, will tell about the Harvard lightweights at the Henley regatta accompanied by motion pictures of the event. Pictures of last June's Harvard-Yale race will also be shown. Bolles has announced that fall training for all men will begin tomorrow at Newell Boat House...
...Weill's twenty-two numbers are of the operetta type, hardly exciting with the exception of "How Can You Tell an American" and "The Scars", and are excellently rendered by the chorus; the principals, however, are less successful. Mr. Logan's work is good, but Mr. Mielziner's sets are a disappointment. Decidedly the show's happiest interludes come by virtue of the seven burghers of New Amsterdam...
...next edition. "Who's that in my room?" growled Corrigan like all three bears. American Airlines Pressagent Carl Anderson, whose employers squired Corrigan's tour, told him. "Well, get her out," said Corrigan. Pressagent Anderson tried to explain. "Listen here, you," barked Corrigan, "when I tell you to do something, you jump." Anderson fetched Miss Underwood away from Corrigan's phone, but Governor Merriam, who comes up for reelection this fall, came to the rescue. "Little lady," said he, "you may use my phone any time you wish...
...bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...
...pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game...