Word: dix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bleated a placard appearing broadcast through New York, Long Island, New Jersey. Other newspapers were not laggard. Sweet Dorothy Dix, writing for the New York Evening Post, and syndicated throughout the U. S., described Charlotte Mills, daughter of the dead singer, as "the quintessence of this hard-boiled age, when girls have no old-fashioned reverence for a mother's purity, but, on the contrary, condone mother's frailty and help her out in her little 'affairs...
...accepted a $2,500 bribe to leave New Jersey. . . . And then there was always the Pig Woman . . . she collapsed on the witness stand . . . Prosecutor Simpson snatched her away from her physicians, took her to another hospital under guard of his own men . . . Reporters, heartthrob specialists scribbled; so did Dorothy Dix...
...Quarterback (Richard Dix). Another football conflict, salted by strong men's glycerine tears, sweet maidens' registered smiles, introduces Quarterback Dix. Totally different from the Red Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail-till...
...Night (Laura La Plante). Out of a clear sky comes a call for Frances Norcross to impersonate abducted actress Daphne Dix. Frances' sweetheart, the press, Daphne's husband, are all very much befuddled, to the moderate glee of the audience. Eventually everything clears up, leaving Frances and her fiance the stronger against matrimonial bugaboos by $1,000. Tully Marshall, mouth full of popcorn, represents the press...
...Besides Dix, a number of former football stars appear in the picture. Among them are Garvey of Notre Dame, the Morey Twins of Brown. Russell of Georgetown, Van-Horn of West Point, and David Butler of Leland Stanford. Esther Ralston is featured in the leading feminine role. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, and a score of substitutes and Second University players accompanied the team...