Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, in the caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece of New Deal legislation, passed to safeguard labor's historic right to bargain collectively through unions of its own choosing...
...Green Light" and "White Banners." Others will presently be forthcoming, it is to be presumed . . . "Escape," by Ethel Vance, is a sensitive and moving story of he Nazi regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham one of the most distinguished modern novelists in English . . . Augusta Tucker's "Miss Susie Slagle's" recounts the story of a student's boarding house in Baltimore . . . Stephen Vincent Benet's "Tales Before Midnight" again attest to his ability as a writer of the fantastic and disturbing short story. More...
Anyone looking for a couple of free seats for the Yale Game had better change their search to a beautiful girl. The committee of the Harvard-Yale Ball to be held at the Hotel Somerset on the night before the game are offering two free tickets to the most beautiful girl who appears in a red dress and two more to the most beautiful girl in a blue dress. All you have to do is find the girl and the dress, invite her to the dance and then hope she invites you up to the game...
There is your chance for a good cheap weekend. Pay $3.50 for a couple ticket to the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Hotel Somerset; invite a beautiful girl in a blue or red dress and let her win two tickets to the game for you; and then win two seats for the Saturday night production of "DuBarry was a Lady...
...Army gridiron squad arrived in Boston at 9:30 o'clock and was immediately hustled off to the Somerset Hotel. The Cadets are slated to come to the Stadium today at 2:30 o'clock for a short workout. Dick Harlow's boys will romp about in the Stadium at about 3:45 o'clock...