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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mr. Lowden has stood thus, he has been shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Foudroye," the first of the one-act pieces, will have the following in the cast: Beaupre W. D. Carter '31 Boismoreau F. W. Coudert '30 Germaine Miss Isabella Grandin Marie Miss Helen Streeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE ANNOUNCES CAST FOR FALL PERFORMANCE | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

...Chapman '31, and H. C. Friend '31, will support the affirmative of this question, while R. B. Cook '31, and G. R. Holden '31, will maintain the negative, and the audience will act as judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING COUNCIL PLANS WIDE FRESHMAN ACTIVITY | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

...gentleman has been in the act of throwing the plate, or discus, for some centuries since he was carved out of Attic marble by Myron, the Greek sculptor, and he is known to the world as Diskobolos, or discus thrower. Professor Chase will speak on the Diskobolos and other works of Myron at 12 o'clock today in the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

Under the terms of his new contract at Milton, Buell will not act as an official football coach, it was understood. He may, however, coach in an unofficial capacity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUELL RECEIVED POST AT MILTON | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

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