Word: brands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, Ted Lewis, the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song and his Jazzical Clowns finally came on, and we were doubly glad we had come. Who can describe the heart-rending pathos in Lewis's brand of jazz? My roommate, who has just taken Music Divisionals, says that the pianissimo Ted gets out of his brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said...
...Clair '26, displaying a brand of fencing that proved almost unbeatable, won the round-robin spring tournament held in the Fencing Room yesterday afternoon, winning five bouts and losing one. Noel Morss '26 achieved the same final score, but the superiority of St. Clair in the touch point recapitulation earned for him the silver cup donated to the winner...
Captain Pfaffmann, Alden Briggs, and W. W. Ingraham alternated in each match at the first three singles positions, in an effort to discover the most effective combination. Each of these three men displayed an excellent brand of tennis. While it is a bit early to make predictions, there is an unmistakable attitude of optimism among the players that success will reward their efforts in their objective contests this year with Yale and Princeton. The line-up of the lower three players is strictly tentative, and strenuous practice this week will be in the nature of a test to locate...
...Once he gave a large dinner in Washington. One of his guests wanted a certain brand of Cairo cigarettes. He ordered them brought to the banquet table. They were not to be had in Washington. The host insisted that they be found and brought to his guest. It was impossible. Impossible! He excused himself and went to Egypt and got the cigarettes, returning months afterward satisfied...
...behind him a long catalogue of notable achievements and who gave his life for you and for me as truly as any soldier who ever died in battle. When any man for campaign purposes or to gain a partisan advantage undertakes to disturb the repose of that leader, I brand him as a political ghoul and declare him to 'be unfit for the society of decent people...