Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that cheap aggrandizement through newspaper publicity which tends to create in students' minds a false sense of values. The CRIMSON, therefore, has discontinued this year its old custom of picking an All-Stadium team. The CRIMSON also deplores the habit of sporting writers to make college players the butt of their gibes and witticisms. This practice is decidedly pernicious. Because a player makes an error in a football game, his career in life may be ruined by branding him before the public as "the man who dropped the punt...
...very little of the "very modern" effects. Two instructors in the Art Institute covered two of the chief prizes. Albin Polasek, sculptor, took the Logan medal and $1,500 for his statue Unfettered quite a different piece of work from his statue of "A Fat Lady Hailing a Bus" butt of wits and columnists, which stands outside the museum and was made to order of a park board. Leopold Seyfert with a self portrait took another medal and $1,000. There were two posthumous Sargents, a goodly number of paintings from the artist colony at Taos, N. M. "A very...
HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
...place in this country, with its dealing in grain futures. But I think it should be cleaned up-and cleaned up from the inside. It has a lot of good men in it who want to clean it up and I see no reason why outsiders should butt...
...were to the effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly. Or was the offender some unnamed great one who was rumored...