Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...
Much in the minds but seldom on the tongues of wise men in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. is Rearmament's impact on U. S. Labor. They are well aware that in time of Preparedness, unions may have to take a beating when their interests conflict with those of Army or Navy...
Governor Saltonstall offers a simple and wise tribute to the Bill of Rights in "The Liberal Outlook," an article that will presumably find a place for the Progressive on the library tables of the now reactionary Bostonians...
...Then Glenn Cunningham went out after him. At the end of five laps, with only the bell lap to go, Glenn was on the flying Negro's heels. Down the backstretch, Glenn put on his famous finishing sprint, tried to edge around Borican's shoulder. But Borican, wise in track ways, moved out. When Glenn tried to slither inside him, he moved toward the rail. He was still in front as the pair flashed over the finish line. When the time was announced the crowd went wild. It was 2:08.8, apparently a new world's record...
Last week, accompanied by publicity-wise Daddy Wood, two nurses and 20 faculty members, one-third of Stephens packed its bags and went off on the school's annual junket to see some of the country and a few new boys (cost per student...