Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COBB...
...litterateurs, editors and colyumists present looked apprehensively at dour, bulky Theodore Dreiser.* Mr. Dreiser reddened but sat still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...
...worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went to the Telegram three years ago following a dispute with Ralph Pulitzer), Frank Sullivan (buffoonery), Franklin...
Harvard's two mile relay team placed third in its event, which was won by Boston College in 7 minutes 50 3-5 seconds. The Crimson quartet was composed of Pearson, Fobes, Cobb, and Wesley. The one mile relay was a fast race from start to finish, as the new record indicates. The time set by Pennsylvania is nearly three seconds less than the record made last year by the Harvard relay runners. The injury to Captain Munroe in the H-D-C track meet on February 21 and subsequent changes made in the quartet have lessened crimson chances...
...yard dash: A. L. Watkins '31, J. B. Hawes '32, N. P. Dodge '33, A. C. Forbes '32. 70-yard high hurdles: E. B. Cole '32, J. C. Grady '33, E. E. Record '82. Two-mile relay: J. H. Pearson '32, J. W. Fobes '32, David Cobb '31, R. P. Wesley '33, Two-mile run: Arthur Foote '33, J. M. Fox '32, High jump: N. P. Beveridge '32, G. W. Kuehn '32, 35-pound weight: M. J. Finlayson '32, Alfred Kidder '33, Pole vault: G. F. Bennett '33, Oscar Sutermoister '32. Two-mile run: B. E. Estes '32. One-mile...