Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order for the big event, the mile relay, is not yet definite. O'Neil, Dunn, Lundell, Kane, Hunneman, Watters, and Rogers have been entered, but the likelihood is that O'Neil, Kane, Watters, and Haggerty will run. The Holy Cross men have been used to handing the baton on an indoor track identical with that which their spikes will dent tonight, whereas at the track on Soldiers' Field the corners are rounded in a different manner. This factor may give the Purple a slight edge, but if all four men on each team stay on their feet throughout the race...
Towering aloft like a column of smoke and fire, Otto Klemperer "volcano of Wiesbaden," brandished the baton relinquished last week by Eugene Goosens as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and conducted the first of 26 concerts scheduled for his first visit...
...procession consisted of a Grand Marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, assistants with craped staves and torches; a coffin, six feet long, inscribed "Football, 1860," borne by four pall bearers: the Chaplain, with a very large craped that, and huge eye-glasses; the class, wearing invalied beavers inscribed "63," and having crape tied on the right leg. Behind the coffin were the gravestones made of wood, painted black, with the following inscription in white letters: (Headstone) HIC JACET FOOTBALL FIGHTUM AET LX YRS OBIIT, JULY 2, '60. RESURGAT (Footstone) FOOTBALL, 1860 IN MEMORLAM, (over a winged skull...
...Building was also in the mind of President Thomas D. Boyd on the opening day at Louisiana State University. In his spick and span office in the University's new $5,000,000 "plant" south of Baton Rouge, he conferred with railway officials upon the building of a three-track spur to the entrance of the football arena...
...July 2 the baton of Conductor Serafin of the Opera, Buenos Aires, commenced to tap, to sweep in great circles, to dip, slither, crash. For two months not Ted Lewis' favorite wand exceeded it in frenzy. Then on Aug. 31 "A cabado !" (perfect, complete!), cried Serafin. "Delicioso," cooed the senoritas. "Bravo! Bien!" throated generous caballeros...