Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentous story beyond its province. How to save its face? The news editor pondered. Horseracing? Cinema? It was impossible to associate Calvin Coolidge with either. Stage? . . . That was it! The editor sent a newshawk scurrying to the office of Sam Harris, producer of the satirical musicomedy Of Thee I Sing. Next day the Telegraph front-paged...
...five minutes of two the cast of Of Thee I Sing . . . was foregathering backstage in normal and unexcited fashion. Five minutes later there was confusion and dismay...
...other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary...
...nothing radical. The House Plan and the depression continue to act as a spur to better scholarship among undergraduates; college costs have been reduced, and the amount of scholarship aids has been maintained relatively stable; the experiment of exempting seniors from hour examinations should be given further trial; and thee is the old land grave question of how many financially dependent students the College can absorb with benefit both to the institution and to the individual. Problems have arisen and have been met; throughout the whole there is a tone of complacent success which one associates with the annual reports...
Play of the Year was Of Thee I Sing, but George S. Kaufman, its author (with Morrie Ryskind), rarely works alone...