Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remaining girls in the cast are Joanne Sterne from Radcliffe "Idlers" Club Virginia Leach from the same organization, and Peggy Eastell, who came from Pittsburgh to play in "Straight Scotch." Extra parts will be filled by members of the club, girls from dramatic schools in Boston, and debutantes of the present season...
...banquet's head table next to Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, got a chance to advocate anything at all, he had the chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
Rapidly the Vagabond became ruffled and confused and irritable. Many months past, beneath the light of a summer moon, he had persuaded a West Virginia lass to accompany him to the sport event of the autumn. Then November twentieth did not seem more than a week away. But that was then. Now, the thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything...
Even with the entrance upon the scene of an enthusiastic and sympathetic female, purblind to college traditions and feuds, the tension was unrelieved. Crossing Dillon Field, Cousin Arthur espied the red jerseys of Crimson players. "Rather conservative up here, aren't you?" he asked Uncle Henry. The West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said...
Aboard S. S. Virginia bound for Panama, traveling alone in a $125 first-class stateroom, under special diet, was Prince Rahula, a Siamese...