Word: yesteryears
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...which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms, old-fashioned gardens with gazebos...
...cinema has woven in many a year. Its pat pattern follows the musing finger of a French widow (Marie Bell) as she traces over the names on the program of her first ball, nearly 20 years ago, then sets out to check up on these beaux of yesteryear...
This summer the President and a fellow member of the board were traveling in Munich. The fellow member had received an invitation through the CRIMSON to visit Herr Hanfstaengl, Harvard's stormy petrel of yesteryear...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...four are Sophomores. No one of these has been regularly on the first string in practice, although Leavitt White, captain of last year's yearling quintet, has been pushing Dan Comfort hard for a berth on the starting five. Bill Gray, six-foot seven inch Freshman center of yesteryear, has the substitute center position to himself, and is expected to see considerable action...