Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the finest military school in the U. S. outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...
...Chanin Building on nearby Lexington Avenue, a lawyer named Arthur Knox was listening to a visitor in his 42nd-floor office. Hard-of-hearing, Mr. Knox was wearing an electrical earphone. All of a sudden he began to hear a description of ice-skating at the World's Fair's Sun Valley...
Tale of a Lexington, Mass, pair of yokels whose romance is interrupted when a movie company invades the town and carries the girl to Hollywood, the show tells how Boy Beats Girl in an extra-inning moving-pitchers' duel...
...stars. Jack Pearl, forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered out to Hollywood...
...regular play with the stickmen. He halls from New Canaan, Conn, and prepared at Exeter. As a Freshman he competed in soccer and lacrosse, winning numerals in both sports. He won his minor II in each as a member of the 1937-38 squads. Norman J. Richards '40 of Lexington succeeds Shirley S. Philbrick Jr. '39 as varsity manager...