Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Groton or Andover, derive from the usages of Hollywood, according to the recently asserted views of a prominent educator. "The accent of the modern freshman from high school, his tastes in music, politics and drama have been influenced by the same agencies as those of wealthier and more urban students," says Harold H. Lobdell, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Sonata,"' best scene in Act II. is laid in the Munich Tierpark, a charming scene by Joseph Urban complete with the blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern...
...sift charges of Negro peonage on Federal levee construction on the lower Mississippi President Hoover last week appointed a board of inquiry. Three members were Negroes: Tuskegee's Robert Russa Moton, Washington's Judge James A. Cobb and the Urban League's Eugene Kinckle Jones. The fourth member was Lieut.-Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui family the Iwasaki scions are active executives...
...summary: HARVARD TUFTS Briesen, Nichols, g. g., Kavanaugh F. Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Whittaker Grossman, l.f.b. l.f.b., Smith Thacher, Morrill, r.h.b., r.h.b., Page Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Urban Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Fairfield, Davis, Porter Baxter, r.o. r.o., Sharkey Seeman, Clarke, Thacher, r.t. r.t., Klopp, Morse Kandoian, c.f. c.f., Dummett Fraley, l.t. l.t., Gauger Russell, Bloomberg, l.e. l.e., Wilcox...