Word: skit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth year the Ice Follies had come to Broadway. The show was started on a shoestring by Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson (a pair of St. Paul skaters who first got into the business 13 years ago when they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at a Manhattan hockey game) and Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late...
...Student Union will present a "skit" on the tenure question tonight at 7:30 o'clock in a membership meeting at Phillips Brooks House...
...Alice in Wonderland could not keep out of the war very long once Great Britain got in. Last week news of an extraordinary Triple Alliance-Lewis Carroll, Adolf Hitler and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached the U. S. Alice had become a wild satire called Adolf in Blunderland, a skit that ably combined entertainment value with rib-tickling, moral-upping, home propaganda value...
After the ritual of cheers--for the Governor, the ladies and the various classes, President Conant gave a short address in which he characterized Governor Saltonstall and himself as the victims of a tradition by which ". . . the 25th class puts on a skit. His Excellency and I are the skit; you, ladies and gentlemen, are the goats...
...Sample skit...