Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint brushes in the ancient common room, the walls can recall scenes of happy parties of youths who have long since become seated in the chairs of the mighty. Here was the scene of the boxing matches so famous in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone...
Unable to click with any degree of consistency, the Harvard Jayvee soccer team lost to Fitchburg Teachers Saturday afternoon in a 4 to 0 shutout. The Junior Varsity booters, who have as yet not won a game, will play their last contest of the season on Saturday against a highly rated Yale eleven at New Haven. Three soccer teams are scheduled to make the trip to Connecticut Varsity, Jayvees, and Freshmen...
Hindered by a marked inability to click during the early part of the season, an uncoordinated Brown eleven set a fast and deadly pace against Yale and defeated Tufts last Saturday without being extended during the entire game...
...moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing U. S. citizens liked to watch quotations from the New York Stock exchange click up on his big board. For the investment business Banker Neidecker founded Neidecker et Cie. with branches at Geneva, Brussels, London, Buenos Aires. Manhattan correspondent for Travelers Bank is E. F. Hutton & Co. Last April Banker Neidecker and his Travelers Bank were listed among Senator Peter Norbeck...
...manager is storming into telephones, receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush in and out. Everyone is screaming when at last the victim comes in, he is immediately mauled by all in sight. A radio announcer yells at a microphone, cameras click, and moving picture machines purr. The scene is almost Shavian in its magnificence. The poor boy has not a moment to himself. He becomes conceited and changed, but still has a spark of the "old Yankee spirit." The final outcome is what makes the story interesting...