Word: cleopatras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results...
...Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by issuing a challenge to all comers. An undergraduate duet, who withhold their names for the present, have accepted the offer under the title of "Authony and Cleopatra," and have began rigorous training...
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...
...staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Salome, Orientale (Pavlowa ballet), Cleopatra and Scheherezade...