Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University wrestling team went down to defeat 21-8 at the hands of Springfield's crack matmen on Saturday. The Crimson's points came in the form of a fall and one decision while the visitors scored three falls and two decisions...
Sixteen points was the margin of victory of the crack Holy Cross basketball team over the Crimson quintet at Worcester last night, the final score being 40 to 24. After a neck and neck contest during most of the opening period, the Purple five finally succeeded in breaking away into a commanding lead which from the final minutes of the opening session it never again relinquished...
Maria Lo presents "Porcelains" (living tableaux) excellently. General Pisano (his "Company" being a trimly uniformed lady who left her nerves at the hotel) is happily a crack rifle shot. Marie Stoddard burlesques Marillyn Miller well. Belle Story, a Hippodrome version of Galli-Curci (with mockery on the flute) registered more high notes than applause, Carl McCullough, advertising "Slikum" and the Irish (Query: Why play Boston?) burr, does a good telephone conversation. Joe Boganny and troupe prove the acme of slap-stick tumbling (yes, the dwarfs are there). William Horlick and Sarampa Sisters hold the crowd in at the last with...
...first time. Of these R. W. Fitts '23 alternated at night forward and center on last year's quintet, W. V. Miller '23 was a substitute back who received his letter, while Lewis Gordon '24, the third man to turn out, was the captain of last season's crack Yearling five. To offset these additions to some extent, J. M. Hartley '23, a last year's substitute forward, who came out for the first time on Tuesday, pulled a muscle during the practice game and will probably be unable to play until after the Christmas holidays...
...There are many exciting moments--scenes which in a different atmosphere would have held the spectators breathless; to be sure, the audience was breathless anyhow, but in this case it was too spent with laughter to move. It could only sit and wait for the comedian, John Murphy, to crack another joke. Nor was it ever disappointed; the joke was always forth-coming and, what is more, it was always good. After two minutes of Mr. Murphy, no one in the house was able to take as anything but a joke the murder of a financier, the hysterics...