Word: past
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bouncing enemy players around like India-rubber men and the turnstiles keep clicking, he wastes no time worrying about the long, 70-game grind of the regular season. Smythe specializes in outshining the competition when the blue chips are down-in the post-season Stanley Cup playoffs. For the past three years, Smythe's Maple Leafs have skated off with the coveted cup, although they finished the regular season in first place only once. But this season, Smythe has had his troubles...
...Theatre Guild) tells of a couple, married for 20 years, who should never have married at all. Doc had gotten Lola into trouble; afterwards the baby died, and the sexy, good-natured, empty-headed girl turned into a shiftless housewife, her mind on men, her thoughts in the past. Doc wound up not a doctor, but a chiropractor, and (until Alcoholics Anonymous took over) a drunk. His career blighted, his emotions blunted, he half sleepwalks through life. Then, discovering that their college-girl boarder is turning, like Lola, into a slut, he goes on another drunken rampage...
...thronged to his square-dance classes. When not busy with these enterprises, Masefield still kept busy writing. More than a dozen novels, including The Box of Delights (1935), Live and Kicking Ned (1939) and Bas-ilissa (1940), poured from his pen, but his great days as a poet were past. "The office of Poet Laureate," Masefield himself once admitted, "is responsible for much of the world's worst literature...
Candidates will receive the training of the University's only school for journalism by writing for a 77-year-old daily that boasts such past members as President Conant; Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; Joseph C. Grew '02, one-time Under-Secretary of State; Gardner Cowles '25, publisher of Look Magazine; and Cleveland Amory...
...Henry Lee Higginson's original purposes for founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra was to provide good music for the Harvard community. This is done through the Sanders Theatre concert series, but for the past few years faculty and regular Symphony Hall customers have made up almost the entire audience at these Cambridge concerts. Students find it impossible to get concert series subscriptions and very difficult to get single tickets...