Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entertainment for the students is offered in various ways. Early in the fall the appearance of Mr. H. G. Wells was more a triumph for Leverett House than for the undergraduates themselves who could obtain no very adequate opinion of him in the brief minutes of personal conversation they were allowed. The House Dinners which occur about once a week in themselves contribute little to the members' enjoyment or instruction, although the speeches which follow have been generally good. In addition to this there have been informal talks in the common room by various professors after small dinners attended...
...Socialist and Labor colleagues, who were interested only in pacifism and disarmament, he started his campaign before the War by giving British imperialistic diplomacy a good thwacking. The policy he himself proposed, says Shaw, was adopted at Locarno, twelve years later "when it was unanimously applauded as a triumph of British statesmanship." When the War broke, Shaw saw in its confusion a good opportunity for Socialists to snatch a political victory, told them "there are only two real flags in the world henceforth: the red flag of Democratic Socialism and the black flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open...
...thoroughly deadlocked was the Geneva Conference last week that correspondents covering it had to scratch their heads and write about the nocturnal fun at Geneva's Casino, about the tawdry Geneva theatres now crowded nightly and about the "triumph"' of that yelping, undulant Negress, La Belle Josephine Baker. Songs by Negro and other crooners included "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "The Old Folks at Home" and "My Old Kentucky Home...
...campaign, has been organized for the current election and has invited Hon. Robert J. Bulkley '02, United States Senator from Ohio, to speak in Cambridge on Friday afternoon. Senator Bulkley, whose victory in Ohio in the 1930 midterm elections was hailed throughout the country as a triumph both for the Democrats and anti-prohibitionists in a Republican state, will be in Boston on Thursday and Friday. He will address the Harvard Democratic Club in the Common Room of one of the Houses, later to be announced. Members of the University who are interested in the forthcoming elections are invited...
Voyaging again to New Haven, scene of its 4 to 1 victory over Yale, the University hockey team concludes its season tonight with a game in whose denouement the Great God Jinx may play a master hand. A Crimson triumph would mean the first humbling of the Big Blue since 1928, a tie leaves Harvard still with the edge, defeat spells another stalemate similar to that...