Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clement Duane Coady of West Newton, Leo Francis Daley of Andover...
...Spokane Spokesman-Review comes out of the west long enough to remark that college funny magazines are pathetic objects; their humor, if it may be called such, is execrable in its stupidity--and this in spite of the face that the best professional humorists in America are college men who received their training while on scholastic publications. But when one realizes that collegiate humor is not confined to undergraduates but is typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable...
...immensely entertaining. The American playgoer might be willing to trade some of the more passionate exotics now treading the boards for importations such as England has on occasion furnished. Permanently to annex an Edna Best would be a pleasure, even if one had to part with for instance Mae West...
...Shoot the Works" is the present title of the book written by R. H. Booth '27 and D. S. Gibbs '27. Laid in the open spaces of the west, the story is a broad satire on the western melodrama that has flooded the country on the stage and between the covers of novels for a number of year past. It is possible that the name of the play may be changed, but no further alterations are expected in the libretto...
...middle west, New England and the south ought to be heartened by this glowing description of national health. Farmers may have had doubts concerning their ability to avoid bankruptcy, bankers may have hastily condemned the Federal Reserve System, or anything which might be responsible for the present financial disasters, and manufacturers may have looked askance at trade: but now everything is settled the doctor has declared the patient to be in the best of form and therefore there can be no possible excuse for lamentations. But Mr. Hoover should travel west, north and south. He might see more than...