Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that does not deceive the public. She gets by on her costumes. To be sure it costs her a pretty penny. She spends a hundred thousand dollars on her dresses for this evening, tomorrow ' night her clothes may cost well nigh one hundred and fifty thousand. But why count the cost? The public gladly pays, to watch, twenty?thirty thousand dollars at a sitting...
Tufts has an experienced nine that should offer stiff opposition, having won 13 of its 21 games so far this season. Yale it easily defeated by a 15 to 9 count, but it has suffered two defeats at the hands of both Holy Cross and Boston College, Boston University, Bates, Wesleyan, and Fordham were all on its list of victims...
...athletes faced the Tiger on its home track, and carried off a victory in brilliant fashion by a 76 2-3 to 58 1-3 count. Two weeks later, however, the Princeton team invaded the Stadium and overwhelmed the Crimson track men in a meet featured by many record performances, the final score standing 85 1-2 to 49 1-2. The following week-end, many University athletes competed in the intercollegiate contests in Philadelphia, but were able to collect only six points for eleventh place. Yale, however, amassed a total of 23, and was beaten for the title only...
...presented with a bout not on the card when Ritchie Mitchell piled into the ring after his brother Pinky's defeat by Benny Leonard, and struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...
...lives" the profession, if it is known, that each man intends to pursue. Otherwise this Album looks very much like its predecessors, and rightly so. The task of the Album Committee is to strive for accuracy and completeness, not novelty. The photographs, which are altogether too numerous to count, are, in general, the same ones which have appeared before. A notable exception is the commemoration of the Sargent panels in photography and verse...