Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, and the Planters' House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...
...whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering with them in their defeats. And Army men, likewise, make the Navy's cause their own against a common adversary...
This team of 1898 was confronted with the problem of avenging a series of defeats at the hands of Pennsylvania elevens, defeats largely the result of the irresistible Red and Blue "Guards Back" offensive. W. H. Lewis '95, considering Napoeon's strategy at the battle of Austerlitz applicable to defensive tactics on the football field, communicated with Head Coach Forbes his plan for stopping the line-crashing Penn guard. The attacks of the Austrian army and the Quaker eleven were analogous, both directing a powerful blow at the center of the opposing line. To substitute ends and tackles...
...indeed seems that an obscure band called "Paul Whitman Orch," have made something very marvelous and quite terrific. Two twelve inch records carry the four parts of METROPOLIS. Some details: By Ferdie Grof and Rube Bloom. Composers at the pianos. Cynical-blue-tragic-droll. Part three most interesting. Vocal work like unto nothing I have ever before heard in all my life...
...idea is to interest some college boys, so that when they are men they will encourage training ships on the high sead. I want them to know what it's like to be off by yourself with a few comrades, blue sea shining all around you, blue sky all above you, the fun of bauling ropes, setting sails, keeping a night watch and steering a boat...