Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet is successful this year it is planned to make the event an annual affair. It will be the only athletic contest of any kind in which Boston fans can see their favorites in action all at the same time, and should prove a great drawing card for Boston's sporting population...
...obvious method would be giving the borrower, upon his return of a book, his receipted application slip. This would not only safeguard the borrower, but would also serve as positive proof for the library as to the return of the book. Furthermore, a carefully managed card file, such as is used by the H. A. A. in their issuance of tickets, would curb the now prevalent practice of undergraduates taking out more than their allotted number of books. Perhaps also some identification of applicant and library number would render the system less subject to abuse by persons who have...
...evening the Vagabond will try a sleight of hand trick to produce a Union card and then proceed to the Union Living Room where the author of "John Brown's Body", Stephen Vincent Benet, will talk on some aspects of modern writing...
...looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised the performance above incongruity, saved the plot from appearing like any cinematic melodrama. She made comedy in the first act out of dishwashing, in the second out of tight slippers and a "company" costume. Then when the card scene came she loosed the energy which makes her Tosca famed and, despite Puccini's feeble music, created ten tremendous breathtaking minutes. The third act was noteworthy only for the sight of a soprano outshining a tenor on horseback...
...which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...