Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation at the beginning of the college years might have been effected without conspicuous loss of dignity, but to withdraw in the middle of the year, giving as a reason therefore that a song acceptable to all the other clubs is not good enough for Harvard is certainly not cricket. Further, to characterize as "mush" a composition by Horatio Parker, whose ideals and achievements in music placed him in the front rank of American composers, is a bit of ill-considered and discourteously expressed criticism that will displease many musicians and be especially resented at Yale, where, as Dean...
...vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...realm of sport the Exposition will provide a series of football and cricket matches, to be played off between teams from the various Dominions. Cried elated Dunedin babbitts: "See New Zuland first...
...title of Hereditary Standard Bearer for Scotland, which allows him to carry the Scotch standard at coronation ceremonies. This honor has been held by his ancestors since 1107. His college is Balliol, and he prepared at Winchester. Politically he is a Conservative, the only one of the trio. Cricket is his sport, but he is not a "Blue...
Last week the summer circus of traveling tennis players gave its show in Brookline, Mass. The event was the National Doubles Tournament at the Longwood Cricket Club...