Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejuvenation of rowing that has come this year with Captain Kelley's powerful eight is manifested by an increased interest in graduates of both universities in the annual Thames classic through an oversubscription of the seats on observation trains. Both the Harvard and Yale allotments have been exhausted, and it has become necessary to curtail unusually large applications. Tickets for the University, and Freshman races which come in the morning are two dollars, and those for the First race in the afternoon are five dollars each...
...king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...
Meantime, over in Macon County, a certain Farmer-Legislator, J. W. Butler, simple and unassuming, toiled in his fields with plow and harrow, not greatly concerned that the bill into which he had written the faith of his fathers had been seized upon as the classic foe of intellectual freedom...
...next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...
...problem of this second group was treated, last week, by the classic nonagenarian of the U. S., in almost classic, although not scientific, language. Chauncey M. Depew, approaching his 91st birthday (Apr. 23) wrote for Collier's Weekly...