Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already famous after four seasons upon the broad highway, the organization conceived by Bushnell Cheney, Yale '21, and R. S. Andrich '25, a former president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, has won a permanent place in the theatrical world. Eight principals of the troupe have been Harvard men. Sixteen players in all tour with the Jitney company; seven of them are professional actresses...
...overpowered Sheriff L. L. Ellis, borrowed his keys. Back in the cells, a voice screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country to investigate. It shocked him to see flies around...
Turning from despair to triumph, he sketched a broad, flamboyant panorama of the potent quinquerernes* which carried two Roman armies to Africa for the Third Punic War. By them Carthage was destroyed (146 B.C.). The Mediterranean became a Roman lake...
...years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George H. Bistany, who had braved malaria and homesickness to wait, near a broad spreading cactus bush in a Nile valley swamp, until the bird's mother hatched him and led him toddling forth with brothers and sisters...
Second Game. The red thatch of Grover Cleveland Alexander is streaked with white, lines crease his broad face. In the world series of 1915 he pitched for Philadelphia. This year, cast adrift by Chicago for his roistering ways, he has brought the gospel of Ponce de Leon to St. Louis. He grew stronger as the afternoon wore on. In the third inning his teammates began to hit Shocker, the Yankee pitcher. Score: St. Louis, 6; New York...