Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good--"Seventh Heaven" came to the Tremont Monday night, and before two distinguished guests-of-honor, Lieutenant-Governor Allen and Mayor Curley, well-known apostles of a clean drama, achieved a very considerable triumph. Producer John Golden was there, and after his leading lady, Ann Forrest, had taken several curtain calls at the close of the second act, consented to speak. He outlined his views on stage purity, complimented Boston for its support of the cause, and ended by calling on Mayor Curley to rise and bow from his seat in the orchestra. The mayor took advantage of the opportunity...
...Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination" and will "move heaven and earth" to win Rosie; of Daughter Rosie who indulges in tears and threats of elopement; and of Mother Jefferson, who does likewise; reduce the old man to submission and the curtain drops on general drinking of whiskey and water and interchange of amiable osculations...
...hour and twenty-five minute scrimmage was the work alloted to the University football squad yesterday afternoon in preparation for the 1925 curtain raiser which will take place with Van Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday. Teams A, B, and C were all sent in against Coach Knox's scrubs to show what they could do both on the offense and defensive...
...small blue and gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger Chick Gandil. They stepped behind the curtain that hid Hal Chase, perhaps the most graceful ballplayer that ever lived, who had also left baseball with a cloud on his name...