Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History might have been a great deal different if the good-natured Marshall had had the luck of Mr. Coolidge and succeeded to the Presidency. For the first time since the night when John Wilkes Booth ended a President's life would there have been a gifted humorist in the White House-a man who could not take himself too seriously at any time, a man who looked out on the world with an appreciation of its futilities as well as its merits and its difficulties-not that Marshall measured up in all respects to the greatness of Lincoln...
With both the Second team and 1928 seasons terminated by the Yale games last Saturday a nine has been formed to play daily against the University in practice. It is made up of players from the Second and Freshman teams. Amsden, Andrews, Booth, Dacey, Bennett, Keene, Knowlton, Roland, DeRham and Slayton representing Coach Lake's nine. Barbee, Chauncey, Lord, Burns, Jones, Linscott, Pollard and Nordberg will be the Freshmen on the new squad. A team made up from these men will stage a game every day against the University. This is the continuation of an annual policy in Crimson baseball...
...Home Week. Good comedy material for Thomas Meighan has once more been secured from the workshop of Booth Tarkington. Our hero bluffs his old village into believing him an oil king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...
...last week would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance of John D. Rockefeller...
When the R-33 broke loose, she plunged wildly down by the bow, then nosed up with equal violence. To on, lookers from the ground, the great ship appeared doomed. Fortunately, she had an efficient crew of 20 men on board and two days' fuel. Lieutenant Booth, , the officer in charge, had never commanded an airship before. Within two minutes after the accident, he had two engines running, the wireless in operation, and the airship in complete control. With the British gunboat Godetia to guide her, with every vessel in the North Sea alert, the airship fought a tremendous fight...