Word: debute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...
...first musical organization to organize is the band. Trials for this University organization, which plays at the football games, mass meetings, and at occasional concerts, will be held early next week. Regular rehearsals will follow immediately, and the season's debut will be made in the Stadium when the University eleven opens against Geneva...
Booth ace of the Freshman team of two years ago, will probably be Coach artchell's mound choice. In case Booth falters, Cutts, Sophomore moundsman, will probably take up the burden. Cutts let down Springfield with six hits, the University nine winning 2 to 0. That was Cutts' last debut, and he has not pitched since. Puffer pitched on Saturday against Pennsylvania and Barbee is scheduled to try his hand at Tiger taming this week...
...Last week, perhaps spurred on by Mrs. Kahn's reception, perhaps en-heartened because Mrs. Kahn had broken ground, the other Congressional widow, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts, who last year was elected to the seat vacated by the death of her husband, made her Congressional debut...
...Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...