Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easter Sunday, in a broadcast from England, Dorothy Thompson said that people in England were writing to their papers asking even further reductions in their rations in order that the food thus saved could be sent to Europe where famine menaces. . . . England, who has suffered so much, asks to help by depriving herself. How can we, who pride ourselves on our generosity, do less...
Miss Gordon's part is based on Dorothy Thompson, who's supposed to be married to Ingersoll--the lampoon breaks down a bit here. From the facts pointed out above, it should be clear that the chitchat in "Over Twenty-One" is of the sort associated with the ante-rooms of the New Yorker...
This afternoon the Glee Club will travel to New York to give a repeat performance of Randall Thompson's "Testament of Freedom" at Carnegie Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Also included on the program, which was first performed at Symphony Hall in Boston, will be Dmitri Shostakovich's Eight Symphony...
From Right to Left. In Seattle, when a whiskey-toting sailor jaywalked into her automobile, Genevieve Thompson stopped, took as witnesses the names of those riding in a car she had just passed. The witnesses, who included the local traffic judge, city attorney, substitute traffic judge, head of the Police Safety Education Unit, and two traffic council officials, let the sailor go on his way, gave Genevieve a ticket for wrong-side driving...
...Orchestra will also accompany the Glee Club in singing the Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson '20. The words of this music were written by Thomas Jefferson and were first sung by the University of Virginia in 1943 on the two hundredth anniversary of Jefferson's birth, but this is the first time it has ever been played by an orchestra...