Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holdup, three bombings occupied the attention of Chicago police last week. Hold-Up. Into the gay, smoke-filled ball room of the Palm Gardens road house came six young men with familiar faces. It was their fifth visit. Dutifully the swaying guests lined up along a wall, dutifully handed over $1,700 in cash, $7,500 in jewelry. But eager to please, the "baron robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels...
Bewildered by Louisiana's trick of protecting the man with the ball, a nervy, inexperienced University of Mexico team in Mexico City lost the first football game ever played between a U. S. and a Mexican college...
Four of Columbia's touchdowns against Union were made by one Ralph Hewitt, freshman captain last year, and the fifth when Hewitt modestly handed the ball to Joyce. Columbia 31, Union...
...Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth holes. Needing one more hole to keep the match alive she drove a long, low ball that hit the fairway, kicked sharply to one side, stopped square at the foot of a dead tree. If Collett could have blown the tree away she would have had as good a chance as Higbie of getting her next shot on the green. She chipped out, rolled her third well...
...strong runner whose versatility will prove valuable. He can back, the line, run the ends, and fits into the lateral passing game well. Harper backed up the line in the usual efficient manner and seems to have more speed than last season. Mays, Sophomore flash, is an elusive ball carrier who also seems lateral-pass minded...