Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany. Late in the week he reached the Netherlands by boat from Ceylon. He was informed by the British Legation at The Hague that his son had been hanged, that he would under no circumstances be allowed to enter England to take charge of the body. Disheartened he wept: "My sins have been visited upon...
...Rossignol, fairy opera in one act and three scenes, by Igor Stravinsky, followed La Vida Breve, made two U. S. premieres in a single afternoon at the Metropolitan. The story was adapted from the tale of Hans Andersen?a fisherman paddling his boat, drawing his nets, hears the nightingale; the Emperor hears it, so does his Bonze, so does his cook, who finally persuades it to come and live at court. Japanese ambassadors come bringing the Chinese Emperor a mechanical nightingale, and the stupid, stupid courtiers, forgetting their own perfect nightingale, applaud the artificial one, and the real bird flies...
...presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every man in the boat except number six and the stroke...
...susceptible to good looks, wants to marry him. In order to rid himself of girl number one, who is about to have a child he plans what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes though the interminable murder trial full of chicanery and sentiment which is the delight of the American press. He is convicted, and spends his last days trying to understand why he did it, trying to decide whether...
Three years ago, under the able tutelage of Coach Cowles, a team was developed which possessed more than the ordinary strength. It opened the season with a 3 to 2 win over the strong Union Boat Club. From then on the season was just a series of wins for the Crimson, and the eight-game season closed without a loss. A fitting climax to the year came when the team was awarded the Massachusetts State Squash Racquets Championship. It had lost but five matches out of 40 played. The 1923-24 team was composed of: Captain W. P. Dixon...