Word: brands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked by a fear of the "villains" of the press galleries, it is advantageous for the sensibilities of the nation to have the correspondents present...
...have been spending most of their time in Widener a dashing visit to the Metropolitan this week is suggested as one way of forgetting the approaching midyears and throwing off the weariness of the fiesh resulting from much reading. In "Wife Savers" Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery display every brand of slapstick, horseplay, and clownishness capable of being photographed. With a French postwar background, a matrimonial motif and the assistance of Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque...
From the opening of the contest it was evident that the University team had the edge on the Middlebury hoopsters; the Harvard forwards especially were playing a better brand than the Vermont offense...
Over 3000 spectators, one of whom at least took an active part in the ice battle, witnessed the contest, the first two periods of which produced the fastest brand of college hockey on record this season. Entering the final period at a grim deadlock McGill snapped up the defense and forged ahead, Doherty scoring a long surprise shot within two minutes after the start of the period. Stealing the top of the Crimson attack he streaked down the ice and sailed the puck past Morrill from the boards...
Health officials in New York have now declared that the subway is immoral. To the dwellers in the wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems...