Word: skinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sancho Panza. Otis Skinner has turned up in virtually a new type of theatrical entertainment. It is partially spectacle, partially satire, partially a political essay. All of it is seasoned by a liberal supply of slapstick and it adds up to substantial entertainment. The story reveals the Squire of Don Quixote in process of ruling the fanciful city of Barataria. Thus are the satire and the politics neatly wrapped and delivered. The slapstick falls chiefly to the lot of one Robert Rossire, who muffles his true being in the folds and fur of Dapple, Sancho's mule. While Mr. Skinner...
...line-up: SECOND TEAM LOWELL TEXTILE Chase, r.e. l.e., Antalonis Taylor, r.t. l.t., Braslin Manly, r.g. l.g., Lawlor Snow, c. c., Brodney Littlefield, l.g. r.g., Skinner Phillips, l.t. r.t., Musgrave Baldwin, l.e. r.e., Carmichle Blake, q. q., Goodwin Harlow, r.h.b. l.h.b., Sutcliffe Nichols, l.h.b. r.h.b., Lucia Pratt, f.b. f.b., Rousie...
...immigration muddle the English Shipping Companies, The United States Lines, and Robert P. Skinner (American Consul General in London) are at odds over the administration of our immigration quota...
...recriminations. The British lines, in their practice of booking immigrants for sailing before passports are viséd, have filled what they believe will be the quotas for July, August and September. Therefore, they will accept no more bookings for those months. On the other hand, Consul General Skinner has not viséd so many passports, and declares that the quotas are not filled. So he accused the British companies of trying to deflect immigrants from the United States to British colonies by announcing wrongly that the quotas are filled in advance. The British, in return, suspect him of trying...
...without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with the tactics of the Missouri mule "skinner", to drive the student back to his studies...