Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, it is possible that no innocent student should wind his merry way to the Shubert unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed...
...life into the role have been few and far between. First there was Minnie Hawk, a very ladylike Carmen compared to her successors. Then came Calvé, whose realistic interpretation won her the name of being the first singing actress. Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime. Mary Garden has done similar service in Chicago. Last week for the first time, the Metropolitan presented the Carmen of Maria Jeritza...
...palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing...
Playing in a stinging cold wind on rough ice in Southboro last Saturday, the freshman hockey team defeated a strong St. Mark's sextet by a 1-0 score. The only score made was netted by P. A. Watts...
Professor Rock writes from Yunnanfu that after going through a "terrific typhoon for two and a half days with a wind velocity of 130 miles per hour and the barometer at 27.90, during which my bed was torn out of the floor and turned over while I was in it," he finally reached Japan...