Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment of the College committee to examine appeals for use of halls was interpreted as a partial concession to the various groups attacking the Browder ban. Appointment of the committee will be made by President Conant, an announcement of which is expected this week...
...talks the Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg, who will manage them, said; "A considerable number of undergraduates have expressed a desire to discerns questions of religion informally with visiting clergymen and so if has been suggested that meetings be held from time to time in the common terms of the various college houses. Men of all denominations will speak and all members of the University are welcome...
...American. He is apt to receive reporters in his underwear, reading a mystery novel. At various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...
...Miss Zula is wise from actual contact with the various classes of human flotsam and jet some that comes floating, broken and drifting upon the shores of life's great ocean," the writer adds...