Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule will include 28 inter-House games and at least one outside game for each team. The final game between the winning House team and the leading Yale College team will be played at New Haven on Saturday, November 18 in the Yale Bowl...
...that fell, and kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas called on 39-year-old Engelbert Dollfuss to form a Government. He gave no answer, but went to his favorite church and spent the entire night in prayer. In the morning he went home, bathed, shaved, ate a steaming bowl of his favorite potato soup with whipped cream, and accepted...
...Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni who had "won their Y in life...
...entire prison camp escapes. Howard, who has given the gentlemanly Commandant (Paul Lukas) his word not to try to escape, tricks the gate guard down from his parapet, kills him with his own gun, mans the parapet machine-gun. Thus covered the other prisoners stampede the remaining guards, bowl over the gates and swarm to the nearby airdrome. All together they fly home while Hero Howard stays at his parapet post until blown up, thus giving his wife to Fairbanks and keeping his word to the Commandant...
...that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving...