Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck...
DECEMBER 5 --Eddie Casey resigns as Head Coach of football...
FEBRUARY 18 --Eddie Casey is chosen new coach of Boston Redskins to succeed Dietz...
Next followed a few representatives of '73, preceding a good number of the fifty-year class, who sported banners praising the author of "Casey at the Bat" and the famous '85 ball team, which won ten straight games, defeating Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale. There followed a sizable representation of the classes of 1900 and 1905, both dressed in ordinary street clothes...
Died. James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through...