Word: billing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of famed Nebraskans as given in your issue of Nov. 18 contains some rather conspicuous omissions. Among them are: Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Indian scout and showman; J. Sterling Morton, first Secretary of Agriculture and fatherof Arbor Day*; Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the Federal Farm Board, publisher, and ex-governor; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (learned to fly at Lincoln); Ace Hudkins, pugilist; Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School. HAROLD L. PETERSON...
...West train robbers embellished their felonies with quixotic gestures, fantastic flourishes. Last of the old school was Bill Carlisle who, after he had wrecked a train, would hold up the passengers with a candy-filled glass pistol. A train robbery in Wyoming last week showed how the old tradition has degenerated...
...long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate. And whenever the Senate does finish fighting, the whole war must be refought in House-Senate conferences. Legislative forecasters declared no tariff bill would reach the President until next March?14 months after it was started by the House Ways & Means Committee...
...quieted ?would he run or kick? When Douglas blocked a low wavering boot that got nowhere, Mays' and Devens' juggernaut spurts made a Harvard touchdown possible. Then Douglas blocked another of Booth's kicks and Barry Wood slanted over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods, Ill., Harvard end, complained of fierce stomach pains after a scrimmage in the third quarter. His spleen was ruptured, had to be removed...
...spark of stage wit, the faculty of knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...