Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps when the spring thaw comes, the Sunday rotogravure section will show the blithesome Columbia crew frolicking about the float like male Pavlowa's, while leading the aesthetic dare a Follies girl in front-page-cover-in Judge costume beckons...
...opinion that the same general scheme of allotment that the 1925 committee adopted should again be followed. This system was based on a draw, and the rooms were assigned strictly by lot, without regard to the prominence of the men nor to the theory of "congenial entries", under the cover of which former committees in many cases showed favoritism, which the present committee believes to be undemocratic...
...Lampoon extends its Christmas greetings within a cover on which Saunders has successfully emphasized the festive season without a hint of mistletoe or the bearded ancient, and barely a touch of green and red, distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...
...explained that he favored the kick-off change because it would give the kicking team less chance to cover the kick and hence would allow more frequent, run-backs. He took this stand instead of the more common one that good kickers kick over the goal too often under the present rule. "A good kicker," he said, "can kick over the goal line from 60 yards away as easily as from midfield...
Frequently the notes cover the whole blank margins of a page, sometimes running over onto the next one, with pungent criticism of the author's statements. Others are briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes "The merciless sport of the Gladiators must have had no little share in rendering the legitimate Tragedy insipid to the Romans. To obviate this the few Roman Tragic writers out-Heroded Herod, or deformed their dialogues into the epigrammatic...