Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...regular playing season ends, in a complicated series of play-off games, a series designed for box-office purposes rather than for scrupulous fairness in picking a winner. Thus the Boston Bruins, the Chicago Black Hawks, the New York Rangers-finishing in the order named in the American group of the National Hockey League-played a preliminary series against the three leading teams in the International group-the Montreal Maroons, the Montreal Canadiens, the Ottawa Senators...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
...have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern in their technique but it was a suave, well-tempered modernism. Here was a group of artists who have arrived, spiritually, socially, financially. A little bronze by the late Antoine Bourdelle, one of the greatest of modern sculptors, looked as uncomfortable as Thomas Hardy at a literary teaparty...
Among Les Trente was a debutante. Vivacious, blonde Mme Natacha Carlu gave the first formal showing of her work with a group of five paintings. Sure of herself, she not only made her debut against such talented opposition as Pablo Picasso, Tsugoharu Foujita, and the bearded, elegant Kees Van Dongen, but she asked as much for her work ($1,000 per canvas) as for any picture in the room...
Although not officially a Harvard institution, the first and natural comparison is with Professor G. P. Baker's Forty Seven Workshop which was at Harvard several years ago. At that time the basement of Massachusetts Hall sufficed for a training school for a group of men who are today one of the most prominent forces in the American theatre, and most of whom are at present on the board of the new school. Today, however, with the increasing complexity of the dramatic situation and the spreading and growth of complete dramatic schools elsewhere, such simple equipment as that...