Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Harvard alumni, as well as three men from other institutions who are or will be studying in the Graduate Schools of the University, are numbered among the recipients of the fine arts scholarships awarded for the year 1929, 30 by the Carnage Corporation of New York City, it was announced yesterday...
...being expected more and more that men coming to college and not concentrating in a language should enter prepared to dispense with the requirements in this field, being equipped well enough for the reading of foreign languages which is necessary in their field. This latest arrangement attempts to do just that thing. It does not however do away with the present means afforded undergraduates for satisfying language requirements, it is merely added as an alternative. The language examinations will be held as usual three times during the year...
...producers of "All the Kings Men," which had its first appearance on the boards of the Hollis Street Theatre last night, did well to call it a "comedy drama." For that is just what it is, Believing, no doubt, the truth of the theory that at the theatre one never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
...great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
...later years, as head of a great railroad, Mr. Rea was not only rail tycoon but public figure as well. Thus many a person knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...