Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...
...part of Harvard's welcome to West Point on the occasion of the Harvard-Army football game October 20 the Harvard Club will give a smoker for all Army men in Boston for the week...
...list of speakers as it now stands includes President Lowell, Lieutenant Colonel Campbell B. Hodges, commandant of cadets, Biff Jones, West Point coach, and Arnold Horween, Harvard coach...
After the review on the Common the West Pointers will march directly to the Park Street subway station where two special cars will be kept reserved in waiting to take them to Cambridge. The cars will not stop at the regular Harvard subway station, but will continue through to the Stadium station where the cadets will again form their marching column...