Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jazz-band comedian. He wanted the violin which belonged to Danielle, a famed virtuoso, wanted it more than any of the women who wanted him, and he stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio...
George Kojac, in Philadelphia, swam 100 yards on his back in 1 min. 3/5 sec., beating his own world's record...
...week Edward P. Clark won the 220-mile Berlin to Boston race, which stopped at Lowell, Mass., when a thaw spoiled the snow on the road to Boston. At the March winter carnival in The Pas, Man., will be revived the derby from The Pas to Flin Flo and back, with a $2,000 first prize and Emil St. Goddard, present world's champion, an entrant...
...death, a footless tippler who turns the five brothers out and lets the farm go to ruin. In years past four of the brothers had tried to escape the farm, two for Canada, one for the glamorous army, and another to marry his Jessie, but the soil lured them back. Exiled now, their only thought was to return, and at the first opportunity they bought up their old farm though it was wretched and twitch-sown again...
...summary: HARVARD 101st. F. A. G. Clark, No. 1 No. 1, Needham Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Furber F. A. Clark, back back, Pitnam...