Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ages and concession to the gregarious instinct. It is for those Americans who have diminished interest in the ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome of a pre-arranged contest. Rarely in an era of corner-pools and Wall Street cabals can anything but a football game present Chance unhandcuffed...
...clock Friday evening, the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron contest the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs, combined with the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, will appear in New Haven in their first concert of the current year. The concert will be give in Woolsey Hall and will be followed by a dance...
While the giants of the Eastern gridirons engage each other in various feature battles this afternoon, a contest, will take place in New Haven which promises to equal if not eclipse in thrills and fine football anyone of the major college clashes...
...three days of complete rest from the steady drive of the regular practice sessions, the University football squad will return to action on Soldiers Field this afternoon to launch its final drive in preparation for the climatic clash with the Yale bulldog, less than two weeks off. The Crusader contest this Saturday will be an excellent opportunity to set the Crimson gridiron machine in motion once again and oil up the rusty cogs before the biennial journey to the Bowl at New Haven...
Hello Yourself, patterned after Good News, is described as a "rah rah musical comedy," to distinguish it, presumably, from those which are merely raw. Its plot concerns a collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held...