Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limited budget and to the fact that the Athletic Council wishes to cut down slightly on multiple intercollegiate competitions, the members of the tennis team were given a choice of going to Ithaca for the Indoor Tournament or of taking a southern trip during the Spring recess. In view of the fact that the latter plan will afford more men a chance to participate in matches, and will offer a welcome chance to get in trim for subsequent matches, the team has chosen to take the southern trip...
...portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
...wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced, his pay cut...
...Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long the state bridge is almost finished...
...deep down in your heart, and then you're sentenced and she relents, but she can't change the sentence, and you are standing in front of those rifles-well, you want the news to get there in time. Silliest shot is Lois Moran cauterizing a cut in George O'Brien's chest...