Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denouncing Molnar's play "Olympia" which had been selected by the Harvard Dramatic Club for joint presentation with Radcliffe this fall as the worst play she had ever read, Dean B. V. Brown of Radcliffe yesterday refused to sanction the production of this play by members of the Idler Club, Radcliffe dramatic society. Announcement of this refusal was reported last evening by H. F. Hurlburt '31, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...actual capital, before a large class of Legionnaires who indulged in scenes of vice and orgiastic revelry beyond the comprehension of any but eye-witnesses. No war record is any excuse for such depravity. The total suspense of law brought about a state of anarchy which invited the worst among the Legionnaires, and there were many of this class, to join with the scum of the city in presenting a bestial display...
College students are no Aunt Prudences and at Harvard at least, there are few conscientious observers of the 18th Amendment, but the worst subway riot, the drunkenest football crowd are piddling trifles in the way of disturbances compared to a Legion Convention. Boston must have wanted the convention, or it would not have had it. Detroit has been awarded the convention for next year. By God, we hope she's satisfied...
...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...
Since February quotations on crude rubber have been sinking regularly to the worst levels in history. Last week the downward movement gathered momentum, sent the price crashing to a low of 8¢ per pound. Reason: The Dutch East Indies refused to impose restrictions on output, bringing an end to the latest of many attempts to curb production. Disheartened, producers compared the present low to the 14.2¢ which was the bottom in the depression of 1922, and the 17.85¢ low six years later when the Stevenson Act was removed. And longingly was 1910's fabulous high...