Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downs on Broadway. He starts off with the box-office liability of being highbrow, with the box-office asset of commanding a small but steady audience made up largely of: 1) cultists -the kind of people who (depending on their age) have seen every Hamlet from Booth's, or Forbes-Robertson's, or Barrymore's, to Maurice Evans'; 2) seekers after the "worthwhile," who dutifully imbibe Shakespeare as they swallow Beethoven and spinach; 3) school children, offspring...
...first two years saw Crimson defeats 12 to 7 and 14 to 0. Finally in 1928 after five barren years Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the Depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Tickner made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...
...Albie Booth...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...
...dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth, a Y. M. C. A. man during World War I, a barnstorming trouper on many a world tour. Countless souls he had won for Jesus. One he remembers well. As he knelt with his convert and asked him, searchingly: "Arthur, what's it mean?", "Gypsy, it's for keeps...