Word: venting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song has been sung for the benefit of outclassed Crimson hockey teams by Prom-happy Elis on many occasions. But tonight will not be one of these, for the Stubbs-Ford sextet is on the rebound from Washington's Birthday at the Forum, and Yale is the only possible vent for their wrath. McGill had a great team and they deserved to end the 20 game streak of the Crimson team; but it was the breaks that gave the Redmen such a high score, and this outfit excepted, Harvard certainly has the best College hockey team in America. Yale...
...plot, sadly enough, as before said, takes life seriously. It is a portrayal of Franz Shubert's hopeless passion for a beautiful young daughter of an Austrian jeweler. Shubert, a shy and awkward lover, finds a vent for his love in his songs to the fair Mitzi, but their new-found romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without...
...Powell as Butler Godfrey, the threadbare, unshaven Harvard man whom she picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower...
...impossible for French Cabinet Ministers to vent their feelings publicly but M. Jean Fabry, recently War Minister, cried: "This super-armament of Germany means that we must totally reorganize our national defenses!" In fear of a Nazi onslaught, even the French Communists, traditional opponents of long-term conscription, urged that French youths be compelled to serve with the colors for three years...
Sirs: Jeanette MacDonald has decidedly beautiful and not at all unduly prominent teeth. . . . Her voice is remarkably true and pure. . . . In Saw Francisco she sings Nearer, My God, To Thee most feelingly and reverentially. Is it possible that you would permit your reviewer to use your columns to vent personal animus and spite...