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...open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love with, and married, a woman whom he admitted to be not only unattractive, but unlettered and shrewish to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradoxical Poet | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard came into its own after five barren years. Dave Guarnaccia and Art French collaborated on laterals that made Yale dizzy. In the 1929 game Albie Booth pulled his amazing disrobing act as he ran onto the field in an attempt to boot a field goal, which attempt was smothered by Jim Douglas. Eddie Mays, Charlie Devens, and a Sophomore named Barry Wood combined to give Harvard a score of 10 which was good enough to beat the six points that Yale obtained on the end of a Booth pass...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...final period Kirkland pushed down to the very shadow of the Eliot goal, but a 15-yard penalty averted a touchdown. Kicking from his own 35 yard line, Wills attempted a field goal, but the boot lacked legs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

Dave Colwell, on the other hand, took the wind to his too and sent off 89 and 75 yard punts to set the Indians back on their goal line, with a safety resulting the first boot. It is to be noted that had Yale refrained from passing after this Dartmouth logically would not have intercepted and scored, although other things might have developed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Daily News Editor Writes On Yale Footballers | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...leaped frantically, shook dazzling tail feathers against the bizarre, glaringly-colored backgrounds of Nathalie Gontcharova. With the often repetitious opera airs of Rimsky-Korsakov cut to ballet length, Le Coq d'Or made good colorful sense, its choreography by Michel Fokine a happy blend of pantomime, burlesque, Russian boot kicks and the classic style at which the Monte Carlo troupe excels-dancing sur les pointes (on the toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sur les Pointes | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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