Word: alger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited, ruining fat Pence. The Hollises ride the flood back to prestige. For variety's sake, the hero's grandfather...
...summary: HARVARD 1928 ST. GEORGES Cozzens, Slocum r.f. l.g. De Sibour, Hall Pusey, Baldwin l.f. r.g. Breasted Barbee, Green, McCurdy c. c. Douglas Meisenbach r.g. l.f. Melville Oothout, Barbee l.g. r.f. Alger, Hall, Clark...
Score, Harvard 1928 47, St. George's 32. Goals from floor, Slocum 7, Baldwin 6, Barbee 3, Pusey 2, Oothout Cozzens, Douglas 5, De Silbour 3, Hall, Melville. Goals from fouls Cozzens 3, Slocum 2, Barbee, Meisenbach, Melville 4, Alger 2, Breasted 2, Douglas 2, De Silbour, Hall. Referee, Dunn. Time 4 10, minute quarters...
HARVARD 1928 ST. GEORGE'S Cozzens r.f. l.g. De Sibour Pusey l.f. r.g. Breasted, Hall Barbee, Green c. c. Douglas Oothout r.g. l.f. Melville Meisenbach l.g. r.f. Alger...
...Page 1, The Sun (Baltimore) ex claimed: "HORATIO ALGER IN 1924 - 'Tattered Toms' play but a minor part in the distribution of the Sun-papers. We have newsboys in Balti more -hustling kids with voices as loud as and with car-hopping agility equal to those of any other city. But . ". . carrier circulation is the back bone of the Sunpapers-delivery directly into the home, not by the glorified newsboy of fiction, but by exclusive carriers, supervised by members of the Sun Route Owners Association, responsible business men who can glorify themselves after working hours...