Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week Lieutenant L. H. Sanderson, of the Marine Corps, flying the Navy-Wright Pulitzer racer, traveled at 238 miles an hour over Mitchel Field, L. I. Later Lieutenant H. J. Brow of the Navy went one better in the Navy-Curtiss racer, attaining the world's record speed of 244 miles an hour. Finally Lieutenant Alford J. Williams (Navy) went 255 miles per hour in another Navy-Curtiss...
...comes Jack Lait, low-brow writer in a still lower-brow magazine, Variety. He is speaking of one Tom Burke, listed among the "New Acts" appearing at Keith's Palace, and he dilates on the relative merits of grand opera and vaudeville. After detailing Burke's former operatic successes at Covent Garden and " the principal European capitals,"he asserts: "The Palace opening, far from being regarded as a ' comedown ' may be regarded as the climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more...
...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
ITHACA, N. Y., May 23.--The Cornell baseball team defeated Hamilton here today by the score of 6 to 1 in a listless game in which Cornell always kept the lead. Brow, pitching in his first game on the Cornell nine, hold the visitors to three hits and fanned 11 batters, while the home team found little difficulty in hitting Warren, the Hamilton Mounds man, freely. Cornell scored tow runs in the fourth and four in the fifth. Hamilton's only score crossed the plate in the eighth...
Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...