Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harrison Tweed '07, Chiarman of the Sarah Lawrence Board of Trustees, puts it, "The New Arts Building is not a luxury. It is a necessity." Margaret Webster, famous theatrical producer and director, lauds the College's theater program. "In these days the art of the thetre fights a tremendous battle against economic pressure," she says. "Its place in our civilization may well be won or lost in the young theatres of the colleges and universities. Sarah Lawrence has already made a fine contribution to a fine cause...
...your cover of March 24, I saw that grin, under those horn rimmed specs, under that coonskin cap, with the coon's little tail adangling, I thought: heaven help us, is that a potential President of these United States? . . . Look at pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Webster-any really great American. You don't see those men grinning as if life were a big haha...
Couple of centuries ago a word-minded fellow name of Noah Webster gave a definition of "contest" as an "earnest struggle for superiority." The word "earnest," of course, implies that each contestant has a chance to defeat, or at least to upset, his opponent. But another fellow name of Bob Kiphuth rewrote the dictionary...
Cylinder Head. Near Webster, S. Dak., after his radiator hose broke and let all the water out, beer-truck driver Henry Becht repaired the coupling, poured in 21 bottles of his load, foamed along...
...Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...