Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...
Yale has a wonderful pair of ends in Barres and Hickok, one of the best tandems that Charley Comerford has produced. The line from tackle to tackle has made steady progress under Adam Walsh, the former Notre Dame center and captain. Marvin Stevens undoubtedly is a better head coach than he was last year, but he has been sorely beset by the developments which have made Albie Booth such an all-important factor in making the Elis' movements towards opponents' goal lines...
...prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters...
...Adam Leroy Jones, Columbia's Director of Admissions, had scanned the 1928 rolls of 216 representative colleges, reported that there was only a 2% student increase over the previous year. In 101 of the institutions having fewer than 500 students there had been a distinct decline. In the larger colleges (those of 3,000 and more), he found a less appreciable wane but in 22 scattered States fewer students were at college in 1928 than...
...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...