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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nurse. Musical comedy of the middle grade is difficult to discuss. It is never stimulating and never wholly dull. Usually a musical comedy of this type has two or three outstanding events. In the present opus these were: the clowning of May Boley and Don Barclay, a tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...coffin was then lowered into the grave, and while the sextons filled it up, the class united in singing the following dirge, to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL, BANNED BY FACULTY IN 1860, WAS INTERRED WITH CEREMONY ON DELTA | 12/15/1925 | See Source »

...Wall Street's menagerie of bulls, bears, lambs, wolves, the homely U. S. cow has suddenly appeared; or to put the matter less figuratively, Wall Street has seized upon the cow and capitalized her to the tune of many millions of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cow | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...Manchester, England, one "Smottox" Kerrigan, chauffeur, stood in the back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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