Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take last week's football. I have been deluged with protests because of my hold announcement that Harvard would beat Dartmouth 13 to 7. They say that is what took the heart out of the Dartmouth boys. And I hate to see that so I'll not say a thing about Lehigh--not a word. Joe, Jr. tells me that the Harvard B team will win by only two touchdowns, but I'm not saying a word...
...would follow that the city was strongly. Republican four years ago. But everybody knows that on the contrary it was strongly Democratic. Evidently the Digest ballots sent out to the voters in New York City have been returned by Republicans much more generally than by Democrats. Apparently the same thing has happened in other close states, but to what extent the poll overestimates the strength of the Republicans no one can tell...
...background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture and distribution grow, they increasingly demand for their administration minds capable of grasping the delicate abstractions and involved theory upon which they depend. Business success no longer involves a mere doing of the right thing by intuition or experience but is only obtained by those whose minds are trained to recognize the entire implication of the affairs with which they deal...
...settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold & greed. Author Pollock calls the whole thing a "verbal cartoon...
Aside from Will Rogers, the best thing in Three Cheers is Patsy Kelly, who fixes her beady and inspired eyes upon a comedian and sings "You're Beautiful." in a scratchy voice. Dorothy Stone dances nicely, but without the partnership of her father her talent even in this direction seems less than bewildering; as yet she has too little ability to be a star...