Word: interims
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...home, "Ophir Hall." the royal party stayed. Barber Fischer described a summons to "Ophir Hall" about ten days after the operation on His Majesty's eye, "to come up and shave His Majesty. The King, I may say, usually shaves himself. Now his beard had grown in the interim. I was aware that this would be a very difficult operation. ... I was ushered into a room almost pitch dark, a room about 60 by 40 feet. The King was in an easy chair far away from the window. ... I found he was not permitted to have a haircut...
When, after an interim of three years, he put together another Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline...
...interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...
There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...
...several Boston trust companies. Charles Ponzi is now in Boston State Prison. In 1920 he was sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. In 1924 his term was over, but he was convicted on a State charge sentenced for seven to nine years. In the interim he was released on bond and hurried to Florida where he tried a lame scheme. He got in trouble with Florida's courts, attempted to flee the U. S., was caught in New Orleans, returned to Massachusetts. In October 1931, he will be eligible for parole, is not preparing...