Word: treading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's opening there was as much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew a storm of applause for being both a good boompser and a good sport. A little later Funnyman Robert Benchley was presented with a live chicken, Little-Man-What-Next Billy Rose with a child's potty-chair...
Where is Harvard? Today it's here, tomorrow it won't be. Tomorrow night it will be just rows of empty windows, starting glumly out over the Charles. The cops will tread their quiet beats, and the commuters will wait peacefully in the Square for the Arlington bus, glad to be rid of the students rudely elbowing their way through the crowded safety zone. In the Yard, the snow will fall, eventually to melt away undisturbed by the usual hands of the students scooping up the flakes and pounding them into snowballs. Passengers in the great airliners flying over Cambridge...
...H.S.U. has excluded, or been scorned by, the far right, it has always included Communists. Russia's recent actions, and the Communist attitude toward Stalin--the "his country, right or wrong" attitude--have raised doubts about how far liberals and Communists can tread together the path toward a fuller democracy. A purge is not the way to quiet these doubts, for the Communists stand for certain progressive measures which belong in any liberal program. But the situation is hazy and formless. The H.S.U. contains on the one hand a tightly knit, unified Communist group; on the other hand a liberal...
Though it is rather unfortunate that the Radcliffe concert and the joint Harvard-Yale Glee Club program on Friday night are spaced so closely, the two differ so greatly in spirit that they tread on each other's toes only slightly. The Yale club has always adhered to the traditional pre-Davison formula of trick pieces and "barbershop" arrangements, and Mr. Woodworth has selected music for the Harvard part of the program which is evidently intended to harmonize at least with the spirit of the Yale section without compromising the usual musical standard of the club...
...product of lifelong tinkering by Powel Crosley with lightweight automobiles, the new car has an 80-inch wheelbase, 40-inch tread, a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine which gives it a high speed of 50 miles an hour, and runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...