Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undefeated Bradley University speedsters with a knack for being in the right place at the right time spoiled what was the best-played game of the season for the varsity last night at the Garden by checking the Crimson 68 to 62. The boys from the Illinois corn belt led at the half...
Last week, Owens had another scalp on his belt: the fastest rising tune on the hit parade, a soggy, foggy ballad called How Soon? He had written the lyrics five years ago, to a simple tune by Sammy Kaye's arranger, Carroll Lucas. No one paid any attention to it, even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record...
With only three days of practice under its belt, the Jayvee basketball squad makes its 1947-48 debut tonight at 8 o'clock when it plays host to Burdett College. Tonight's season-opener for Hal Kopp's charges lifts the lid on a 16-game schedule...
...student at Al Azhar buys himself a high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a sheikh (elder, i.e., teacher), who leans against a pillar and expounds Islamic faith and Arabic letters...
...saleslady cited yesterday a municipal regulation more vigorously enforced than the standing five-wampum-belt fine for kissing the wife on the Sabbath. The law makes it a misdemeanor to negotiate pavement sales without a license...