Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Providence, R. I., newspaper reporter had stuck his nose-for-news into Caldwell's mount ing fame, reported how he had played for Brown as a freshman before entering Yale. By Yale's dual contract with Princeton and with Harvard, Caldwell can play no more Yale football. He can, however, play basketball & baseball in the winter & spring. †the same rules apply as in regular football except that it is unnecessary to tackle - a runner-with-the-ball...
There may or may not arise some carping soul to comment unfavorably upon the fact that Miss Ruth Elder, who flew, if not to Europe, at least most of the way to the Azores, has accepted a vaudeville contract at a nice, fat figure, in order that the public may see the first woman to fly nearly to Europe and that she may have a suitable reward. True enough, this is not what Lindbergh did; but Lindbergh was an army officer with a responsibility to his government, and Miss Elder is not. It is impossible for anyone, particularly a young...
...publicity is to give it all it wants and more--to attend receptions, have pictures taken, and appear on the stage until the demand, disgusted with such easy prey, turns to more elusive subjects such as the reticent Mr. Coolidge or the secretive government of Rumania. With her contract in vaudeville finished, as well as her connections with movies, beauty clays, and other such gold mines, Miss Elder may retire, as safe from the headlines as the pilot who flew her plane across the ocean...
...wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they do. It then appears that Constance was no more annoyed than she was, because she holds a theory that marriage contract is, after love has passed, merely a friendly association, in which the wife, in return for being maintained in a certain position, uses her husband's household to entertain his friends. As long as he maintains her in the manner to which she is accustomed she must remain faithful...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...