Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College and chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common room under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club. The title of his speech is "Labor Turns Left" and in it he will attempt to answer the self-imposed question: "With miners in revolt in every field, the American Federation of Labor losing strength steadily, auto workers striving to organize, and unions being smashed daily by the depression, where can labor turn...
President Kerwin Holmes Fulton of Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publisher Albert John Kobler of the Daily Mirror, Banker John Edward Young, silk merchant M. C. McGill are among the residents of Manhattan's fashionable Upper East Side who keep their expensive automobiles in the Carlyle Garage on East 76th Street. One morning last week they heard that three armed thugs had held up the garage's night attendants, slashed and acid-burned 27 cars, including their own. Otto W. Peters, owner of the garage, said he had been threatened for weeks. He appealed to police and the District Attorney...
...henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed is the impersonation which Edith Evans (last seen in The Lady with a Lamp) brings to the part of Irela, a character in which cruelty, vanity and tenderness fight for the upper hand. As Irela's niece, Miss Jane Wyatt performs capably. But Evensong remains the sort of wooden spectacle in which crowds of supers are led out on the stage to gape at the star, having nothing else...
...biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured him he knew death came next, was ready to take it with a stiff upper lip. But just as his head was dragged back against the execution stone, as the tomahawks were raised, young Pocahontas, Powhatan's daughter, dashed forward and flung herself upon him; he was reprieved, adopted into the tribe. He and Powhatan never trusted each other; with Smith back in Jamestown they kept swearing friendship...
...other hand, the upper students respond so well to tutorials that I am constantly alarmed that they will ask me to direct their thinking into fields of sociology in which I have done no great amount of original work...