Word: classicized
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...morning last week 3,500 businessmen marched past the west side of the White House grounds and through the classic portals of Constitution Hall. They were the NRA code representatives, trade association executives and bigwigs of industry. They took seats in the great auditorium which the Daughters of the American Revolution built, seats which the Daughters themselves warm but once a year. The platform was gay with flags and banners. A red-coated Army band played "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" The adjutants of industry spoke softly to one another...
...Boer, Miss Lewis thanked the League in the name of her South Africa, took the chair while the delegation orators occupied the rostrum. The gathered company was nonplussed when the first speaker, Yale's and France's Pierre Bori, delivered a stylistically brilliant address in his native tongue, propounding classic bromides about civilization, liberte, securite, and Gallic defense "contre les hordes sauvages." Another native language speaker on the program was the gentleman from Greece, whose lucubration occupied a quarter of an hour, and absorbed as much more time for translation. Star of the undergraduates was Malcolm Hoffman '34, no mean...
...appeal, Ulysses cannot be called great. It will never be a bestseller. Old-line critics have mostly found it too hot to handle. But a growing body of modern critical opinion on both sides of the Atlantic has already acclaimed Ulysses as a work of genius and a modern classic. For readers to whom books are an important means of learning about life, it stands preeminent above modern rivals as one of the most monumental works of the human intelligence...
Inaugurating the winter track season, Harvard will enter a team in the Prout Memorial Knights of Columbus track meet, to be held tomorrow night at the Boston Garden. One of the keenest events of the evening will be the mile relay classic between Harvard and Holy Cross, with the Crimson slightly favored to repeat last year's victory. Howard S. Derrickson '36, John Dorman '36, John B. White '34, and Captain John M. Morse '34 will make up the Crimson quartet. Coach Farrell is also entering a team in the Intercollegiate Team B mile relay race...
...jazz, Harvardians like Eddie Duchin, the Casa Loma orchestra, and Cab Calloway. Ellington is a classic here: people come in and buy his records of two years ago. Such men as Reisman and Lombardo no longer sell as they used...