Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your evening's reading of the heavier volumes, a few hours will be entertainingly spent with Congo Jake in the winds of Africa. A. C. Collondon (Clande Kendall, $2.75) takes you through some tight squeezes that will make you wish the fire would stop throwing shadows on the wall...
...remove hat, gleves, coat, and face, and reveal nothing but the wall beyond him is not an entirely new sensation (c.f. Dracula looking into a mirror and seeing nothing); but it is none the less grotesque and even somewhat amusing. The producers of "The Invisible Man" have not taken their creation too seriously, and so they have him do a jig down a country road with nothing but his trousers and an hysterically fugitive old woman to indicate his presence...
...Crimson first wall found themselves in the last period, and Wyndham Hasler '34 managed to break the 1-1 deadlock with a tally only 52 seconds after the whistle. Samuel R. Callaway '36 and Duffey, taking an example from the pass combination of Benjamin H. Hallowell '36 and Albert S. Dewey '36, which worked well but in vain, slid the rubber down the ice, with Callaway finally sending it into the M.I.T. draperies after 4 minutes and 24 seconds of play. Duffey himself contributed the fourth score a few minutes later without the aid of his teammates...
With longer and better discussions of gold-standard economics separating his flambuoyant portraits of Wall Street personalities, Father Coughlin has again rolled a sonorous hour's speech along the national networks. Again the bankers, professors, senators, braintrusters, labor leaders, and even cardinals can read it with detached approval or dissent, not a little bored by the purely popular reactions to the scientific, unemotional experiments of the administration...
...smelly smoky grimy little auditorium at Revere last Saturday night were gathered several hundred of Greater Boston's good citizens. High on the wall above them hung a large sign: "Ladies and Gentlemen: This is a place of refined Amusement. Whistling, Stomping of Feet, Drunkenness, Catcalls, and other Noises strictly prohibited". The audience whistled, stomped its feet, screamed, one doughty matron rang a cowbell. It was witnessing a great climax, the end of a Dance Marathon...