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Coach Butler, the new and youthful mentor of the Midshipmen, was formerly an assistant of Coach Callow of Washington. Therefore the stroke he teaches is distinetly at variance with the Glendon style. However, he has not made the transfer too sharp for the veteran Navy oarsmen and the long Glendon finish, with the leaning back characteristic of Annapolis crews, is still noticeable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREAT NAVY EIGHT IS FAVORED TODAY IN BASIN REGATTA | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...them wherever you go but especially in Paris and on the Riviera-the uprooted ones, the people without a country, This is not a realistic book about them, for it is full of happy endings, special cases. Yet you can imagine, or you know, what might have befallen a callow, spirited filly like Betty Marsh-whose taste of the wide World during the War made Macochee, Ohio, intolerable and took her back to run her chances among the big hotels, casinos, studios and half-soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen into the hands of a successful artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Replanted | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...Manhattan theatreful of the East's leading fad-connoisseurs fell into expensive hush, breathlessly hoping that all they had heard from Americanos lately abroad was even partly true. Glad tidings had come from widest sources; from jaded novelists and strong-minded grandmothers, from callow collegians and a onetime U. S. foreign ambassador, who had circulated verses that were but feebly expressive of the ecstasy that called them forth. The evening had even been signalized by a cable from the King of Spain?his thanks in advance for America's "homage to Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Sorceress Meller | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...have always had a sort of half guilty interest in Byron's As a callow school boy I would recite "The mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks on the sea," and see the handsome, bare-headed figure of the poet, wrapped in a long dark cloak, and gazing out over the wide ocean. Today, at 10 o'clock in Sever 11, Professor Lowes will lecture on Byron in English 28, and even though it means attending two courses in succession, I shall be there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/6/1926 | See Source »

CRADLE SNATCHERS?Three slightly antiquated ladies take three callow college youths off for a weekend on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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