Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking Governor Gabby Harrigan (John Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its...
Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during...
Theodore Roosevelt characterized his age when he preached the virtues of the strenuous life. To later students, that period looks more like a hyperthyroid era of American history-an era marked by strident praise of action for the sake of action, when Richard Harding Davis was reporting breathless adventures in...
The team from Down Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed...
For the twelfth time the U. S. had won the Davis Cup, put up in 1900 by onetime U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis.