Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second match was touch and go for five long games. Jeffrey R. Short '36 finally edged F. C. Chase of the Dartmouth Club for the Varsity's first victory...
...phone did ring: "Would you like to skate?" Whereupon I did put on some new flashy breeches and a cape which did make me look like a monk--at least so she did say--and so to Lake Waban. She, being very expert, did lead me a merry chase; and did top off her victory with a most silly remark that, my best form of exercise was "jumping at conclusions". Whereupon I did wash her pretty face in snow and so to tea at The Cabin...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...
Through the first two-thirds of the picture, Eddie Cantor, as Eddie Pink, a timid amusement-park manager embroiled with slot-machine racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...
...Ones. With the exception of a handful of giant institutions, the 15,994 U. S. banks now open are largely locally owned. Unless an investor happens to be a stockholder, his only interest in these banks is their periodic and anonymous appearance in composite banking figures. However, Chase National Bank, biggest in the U. S., is owned by 92,000 stockholders including John Davison Rockefeller Jr., whose interest is less than 5%. National City has 90,000 shareholders, Guaranty Trust, 24,400. These three biggest U. S. banks have yet to hold their meetings, but most of the other supersolvent...