Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak once in New York when Fesler was Freshman coach at Ohio, and hired him as a result. Previously, the new coach had been all American in both football and basketball at Ohio, and was used to playing the latter game where basketball was the one sport during the winter...
...relations have been thought of as a great game of chess, played in well-planned manicures and for gigantic stakes. Recent events have made it a different picture. Now it is a huge game of strip poker, in which France, Great Britain, and the United States have entered wearing winter underwear, chinchilla ulsters, and heavy overshoes. Hitler and Mussolini were already shivering when they sat down at the table, and there is a question as to how much stripping they can indulge in before catching pneumonia...
Even under student direction it should not be impossible to offer more plays during the year. A winter and spring performance, neither of large proportions, would make an excellent House program. Those interested in acting might hold readings of plays to stimulate dramatic enthusiasm. Despite the limited size of their halls, which prohibits the inviting of other Houses, these groups may develop worthwhile competition. To do this, and to continue the experimental quality underlying all presentations, the historically-minded undergraduates might don their socks more often...
...shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
Tossed into one of the liveliest medleys of battleships and submarines, songs and choruses, long-limbed Eleanor Powell trips through one of the best musical comedies of the winter, "Born to Dance". As Nora Paige, the New Hampshire country girl, she finally gets a lead in a New York musical show. James Stewart who plays opposite her as the luckless Naval officer is duped by a rival actress in a publicity stunt. Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin...