Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler '28, tried to catch each man in a characteristic pose. Director Barbour of the University Museum was filmed charming a dangerous snake, while Professor Merriman had his inevitable pointer...
Back Seat Drivers is a farce in which two women try to manage their husbands' finances. They get involved in crockery and their husbands have to catch thieves. Spots of this are funny, in a modest...
Connecticut's Fenn is a patient, high-minded 72-year-oldster. Homer Hoch of Kansas is an electric, driving "youngster" of 49. It is not likely that Mr. Fenn will catch the Homer nodding but neither is it likely that the Hoch logic will persuade the big-state delegations to vote down Mr. Fenn's long-laid plan...
Over the regular trans-Atlantic telephone Prince George talked from Manhattan with Queen Mary. Later he peered from the top of the Woolworth building, sat down to dine at 8:30 in the Vanderbilt mansion, slipped out at 10:15 to catch his ship...
...Japanese are not very good baseball players. However hard they try, there is some gymnastic constraint in little yellow Japanese frames which makes it impossible for them to throw and catch without an awkwardness. They are at their best in running and sliding between bases; their feet are quick and they give little birdlike cries on arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue...