Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme Howard dropped in at the Executive Offices to introduce to the President Sir Auckland Geddes, onetime British Ambassador to the U. S., with the Earl of Stradbroke and Lord Dunwich...
...dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present...
...handy fashion, and West of Stanford and Haas, the Georgetown captain, progressed to the finals with second honors. The high obstacle event should bring about some of the closest competition of the meet this afternoon, and on a fast track Dye is due to threaten the mark set by Earl Thompson six years ago. The Crimson entries, Ballantyne and Clarke, were completely shut out in the trials...
...following article on the high hurdles was written by H. L. Hillman, track coach at Dartmouth. Hillman, who trained Earl Thomson, the intercollegiate record holder, calls attention to the remarkable speed shown by Thomson in his record breaking performance, a performance which he thinks will not be equalled for several years...
...nearly two score American colleges who will start competition in the fiftieth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. track and field championships on Friday all realize the merit of the record which half a century of competition has produced for the 120 yard high hurdles. Back in 1920 Earl J. Thomson of Dartmouth flew over the high barriers in 14 2-5 seconds and that mark, made at Philadelphia, will be very hard to lower. There is a possibility that it will be equalled but I doubt if it will be lowered for many years and I also believe...