Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University soccer team avenged itself for last year's defeat at the hands of the Dartmouth invaders by kicking their way to victory in one of the best games of the season yesterday afternoon on the field behind the Business School. The Harvard team showed the best teamwork and fight yet exhibited this season, and clearly outplayed its opponents...
...plot is tenuous at best, and has seen service many times before in one form or another, although the current version is not too patently obvious. Really capable acting would have made it a very serviceable movie, but unfortunately the two principal characters are guilty of over-exaggeration of their parts. While not attaining to any new artistic heights or reaching any profound depths of subtlety, it must be said, however, that as mere entertainment, "Jealousy" is perfectly commendable...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...
...former star of "The Green Hat", now appearing at the Wilbur in the stage version of Edith Wharton's "Age of innocence" uses this vehicle as another step toward being claimed one of America's best. As Countess Olenska she takes advantage of every opportunity to display her emotional qualities and gives a delightful performance throughout...
Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the stage adaptation of Miss Wharton's best seller and she follows the original throughout with few exceptions. The story is the narrative of Countess Olenska's love affairs, both in Europe and in New York. As the play opens the Countess has just returned from Europe after a-shipwrecked first marriage. She settles down on Twenty-Third Street ready to take up again New York social life...