Word: dan
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...latter part of the scrimmage the Jayvees marched down the field to the Varsity 25-yard line from midfield on a beautiful pass from Gardiner Prouty to Nat Tenney. Dan Comfort stopped the invasion when he intercepted a second Jayvee pass on the 20-yard line and ran it back to the 30. Nothing of note happened during the rest of the scrimmage...
...preacher book that Lewis wrote." ¶ Tall, highbrowed, pink-cheeked Reinhold Niehbuhr, Socialist, is "the most popular speaker among college groups on the American platform today." Editor of World Tomorrow, he teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Unlike that other preacher-to-the-young, Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling (whom Author Jones does not include among his chosen 32), Niehbuhr is "recusant, an independent, a pathfinder. . . . Niehbuhr loves to shock the complacent; Poling to inspire the indifferent. . . . Poling is a lesser Bryan; Niehbuhr a more intellectual Debs...
...Dan Hoan, protege of the late great Socialist Victor Berger, was elected Mayor of Milwaukee in 1916 at the age of 35, has held the job ever since. Before that he served six years as City Attorney and before that he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin as a cook, ran a restaurant in Chicago while studying law. Today with a salary of $12,300 he lives in the same cheap little house he occupied when first chosen mayor. When Woodrow Wilson died in 1924 the City Council drew up a resolution of condolence to the widow...
Dinner at Eight (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). An aging film actor, planning to recoup his fortunes on the stage; Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, just over from London and on their way to Florida; a thick-skinned tycoon named Dan Packard and his Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags...
...Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot...