Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of Harvard students will have an opportunity of going to sea with Count Felix Von Luckner during the summer after next, according to the Count's present plans as outlined to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The present plans for the cruise will take approximately ten American university students along with five German men through the Panama Canal to the West Coast, for adventure, the group to enjoy enroute participation in gunning, fishing, and harpooning...
...Minnesota, a gigantic lineman named Bronko Nagurski outran his team mates in a race. Observing this, Dr. Spears, Minnesota's coach, summoned the rapid hulk and took him out of the line. Dr. Spears was looking for a successor to famed Herb Joesting who pushed his backfield bravely along last season. He regarded Bronko Nagurski as a potential fullback and, having noticed his celerity, he suggested, immediately, this position to the enormous player. So powerfully did Nagurski function in fullback capacity that a nickname ("The Big Nag") was found for him and he became the first of the autumn heroes...
Janet Gaynor, newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
There are, however, a few places now held by undergraduates which will continue in their present status. The question is whether, at the end of ten years of development of the student body along its present lines, there will be enough men of the calibre required for some of these positions who will be willing to divide their time and abilities with work which yields no tangible return beyond a dead glory and that old bromide known as "experience...
William Randolph Hearst of the Journal lured Outcault and his Yellow Kid away from the World along with most of the World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough...