Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding property of the Smith trip was a brown derby hat. That is the Smith insignium. Asheville haberdashers caught the idea quickly and their windows were soon filled with what one correspondent referred to as "copper war helmets." In Manhattan, seeking to find out where the original Brown Derby was bought, newsgatherers found no less than three hatters claiming the honor-Knox, Young and Truly Warner. The Knox company said that Candidate Smith purchased four or five of its hats per annum. All hatters look forward to a boom year, not even counting election bets...
...baseball season always begins on a cold grey day. Celebrities with stiff fingers and blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock, the newly seated University first and second crews will have their initial trial race over the Henley distance. If the weather conditions are good and the wind favorable, Coach E.J. Brown '96 will have his two eights compete on the Charles River Basin...
...Albion of Princeton; "Social Problems and Social Policy," by Professor G.W. Allport '19 of Dartmouth; "Money in Banking" and "Corporations," by Professor M.M. Bober, of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; "German Composition and Conversation," by Professor A.W. Boesche of Cornell; "Principals of Educational Psychology," by Professor Laurence Carmichael of Brown; "Chancer" and "American Literature in the Nineteenth Century," by Professor E.D. Snyder of Haverford; "Musical Appreciation" and "Romantic Period in Music," by Professor R.D. Welch of Smith. "Relations of China and Japan with Western States," by C.W. Young of Leiden University, Leiden, Holland...
...line-up of the University second team follows: T. G. O'Nell '30, 2b.; J. J. Carver '30, s.s.; John Tudor '29, l.f.; G. K. Brown, c.f.; E. J. Steptoe '28, c.; R. H. Barbour '30, 3b.; A. V. Ellis '28, 1b.; E. L. Molloy '29, E. A. Colpak '29, p.; E. B. White...