Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast, the thunder and the lightning. Great Quarterback Guttormson kicked off for Washington and in a spurting run, a twinkling pass, the ball was back on his 17-yard line with agile Quarterback Pooley Hubert calling a new Alabama signal. The thunder awoke. Alabama's next pass was intercepted and Guttormson, Tesreau, Patton and Wilson plunged the ball back to a touchdown. In the second period they got another, in the fourth another...
...Crimson ball players won a close decision over the Waseda team on May 26, 1921, by a 6 to 5 score and the nine from the Orient will make a strong bid for a victory this year. The Japanese team will leave in two months and the trip will last well into next summer...
...snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof partition, which he demonstrated in Washington. On a night when two dances were being given in the Mayflower Hotel-a charity ball in one ballroom and a party for members of the Diplomatic Corps in another-he put up his partition between the two dance floors...
Time came for the first dance. A nine-piece orchestra struck up a fox-trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable...
Special arrangements for Harvard men have been made by the Boston Junior League, in admissions to the ball and entertainment to be given Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock, in the Grand Ball Room of the Copley Plaza...