Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last winter 150 prominent St. Louis music-lovers chipped in $200 apiece, organized a permanent St. Louis Opera Association, signed up first-magnitude stars, scheduled a short season in the spring, another for fall. Last week, with an advance sale of 18,000 seats, St. Louis' brand-new opera opened its first season with a performance of Die Walküre (starring Lauritz Melchior and Marjorie Lawrence). Said the new company's manager, James E. Darst: "Grand opera cannot fail if St. Louis is really a big league town. And we're betting that...
...Spring fever Snell leaned out of the window of his room in Lowell G-42 and proceeded to bombard the famous bells with marbles from an improvised sling-shot made over from a cross-bow of his own design with which he has been practicing all winter...
...William Lyon Phelps had passed his peak with undergraduates. But with U. S. readers he was at the height of his power, carried more weight than any critic before or since. To his praise were due the sensational sales of A. S. M. Hutchinson's saccharine If Winter Comes, of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, many another novel of equal flimsiness...
...damning intercollegiate competition. In the Varsity sports that remain we oppose curtailment, save in connection with shorter winter schedules. And, in the sports which we are taking from the ranks of "minor" into House, we believe that it is both possible and even fairly probable that in the future some of them might be added to the select seven. Soccer appears to have the greatest chance in this regard now, and, should participation, outside interest, and funds permit, the day may well come, perhaps soon, when soccer will be back in the intercollegiates...
Bradford Washburn will speak on "Winter Exploration in the Yukon" tonight under the sponsorship of Edward W. Quinn for the Dowse Institute...