Word: mis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally in vincible." He waxed his mustache, got into the Ecuadorian cavalry, was all set for adventure when he came down with jaundice, ran out of money, made his way with great difficulty to Guayaquil only to find the port quarantined with bubonic plague. There the innocent soldier of mis fortune hit a real romantic adventure. Late at night he picked up a mysterious Chilean girl, a little plump and strangely absentminded, but pretty. He took her to his hotel. He ran out to get something to drink, found her in bed, moaning piteously when he returned. The plague...
...Green also spoke of a certain mis-understanding which has arisen concerning the recipients of honorary degrees, and he mentioned a letter published recently in the Transcript by Henry D. Sedgwick '82, who objected to the fact that no great musicians or artists had been honored by Harvard...
Died. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 82, famed Indian scout who helped General Nelson Miles rout Sitting Bull Crazy Horse, Lame Deer and others in the Indian campaigns of 1875-77; in Washington. He was the son & namesake of Mis .iss oni's late great statesman who went from the U. S Senate to the Cabinet to the Supreme Court...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...
Since the news of the Dramatic Club's not-so-recent mis-judgment has at last been published, it is pertinent to bring to the public's attention some facts concerning the drama situation at Harvard. By no means is this a letter commending the Dramatic Club for breaking a University rule, of which they were cognizant; on the contrary, but they have suffered their punishment and the immediate case is closed. The question does arise, however, why should the Dramatic Club deliberately break a University rule? What conditions lie behind such...