Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Eastern Point last week the Connecticut Democracy, long a minority in State politics, convened to make nominations for the November election. From Homer Stille Cummings, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, down to the youngest of the 1,000 delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had one antagonist in mind: big-bodied, hard-eyed John Henry Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor...
Poor Old Irigoyen. Almost every other day last week, 73-year-old ex-President Irigoyen became alternately a "prisoner" and a "guest" of the Uriburu regime. Official announcements on this point finally became so jumbled that only this could be said: a white-haired old man slowly mounted the gangplank of the cruiser Belgrano, walking as in a dream between his daughter and his doctor...
Though she lost her point, Jeritza won San Francisco for her own. The audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come...
Graduates of Harvard University are reminded, that applications for season, West Point, and Dartmouth tickets must be filed at the B. A. A. office by 6 o'clock today. For present members of the University only, the closing date is Wednesday, October...
...young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations of service. It involves a point of view directly opposite to that held by the coal-miner of Pennsylvania, who, with great sacrifice to himself and family, sent his son to one of our universities. When asked by a friend the reason for so doing, he replied: "I am determined to give him every advantage...