Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Painter Haeberle's two masterpieces, Changes of Time and Grandma's Hearth, were bought by Detroiters at the Detroit Exposition of 1889. After a few years, both ended up in the gentlemen's art gallery of Churchill's Saloon on Woodward Avenue. Changes of Time outlasted Churchill's as a cherished possession of Distiller Marvin Preston. It got its poignancy from the fact that it displayed, in minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge...
...years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul...
...Ladies and gentlemen," Rosa Weber is supposed to have announced, "I am a true German. I love Adolf Hitler. If you don't stop talking against him, I will stop serving the dinner right...
...Balbastre Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Carols Deck the Hall Welsh Carol Wassail Song English Carol, arranged by Vanghan Williams Touro-Louro-louro Provencal Carol by Nicholas Saboly Scripture Reading, Luke 2, 1-19 Carols Listen Lordlings Osgood Cancion de Navidad (Radcliffe only) Austrian Carol God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen English Carol A spetless Rose Howells Congregational Hymn "Adeste Fiedlis" Masters in this Hall French Carol arranged by Gustav Holst Carol of the Tapping Shoe (Har. only) Czech Carol To God on High Decius Benediction Organ Postlude Hallelujah Chorus Handol
...given over to farce, so it is with the current production. It must be said in all frankness, however, that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats...