Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of officials, both paid and voluntary, are conducting themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...
...best new numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...only ten times, to lecture and raise money. Four times he refused bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against...
Center Warren Winslow, left winger Forbes Perkins, and right winger Skip Ervin shape up as the number one Crimson offensive unit. They have been playing on the first line ever since serious practice started and are almost certain to face off against St. Nicks next Saturday. Stacey Hulse at center, Dave Eaton at left wing, and Jack Willetts at right wing have formed the second forward trie thus...
Including Ernic Sargeant, who was voted a letter although he was unable to play against Yale, there will be 22 men voting this afternoon. In that number there are nine Seniors, nine Sophomores, and four Juniors...