Word: eighth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dunster House nine yesterday defeated a baseball team formed by the Department of Economic Agriculture by a score of 13-7. The house team broke loose from a tie in the eighth inning to garner six runs in succession in the ninth. The Economic pitcher was Chambers, who hurled for the Baltimore Orioles last year, but he was taken out in the sixth inning. The fielding was poor on both teams...
...Pulitzer Prize play "Of Thee I Sing," goes the credit for having dug up "The Diary of an Ex-President" which Minton, Balch & Company recently released. It is the private diary of former President John P. Wintergreen and was discovered by Mr. Ryskind in the new subway on Eighth Avenue. Mr. Wintergreen will be remembered as the President who was elected on a Platform of Love in "Of Thee I Sing...
...George Nelson of the Yale School of Fine Arts. The Prix de Rome in Sculpture went to Robert Johnson McKnight of the Yale School of Fine Arts. The Prix de Rome in Painting went to James Owen Mahoney Jr. of the Yale School of Fine Arts, making the eighth successive year that Yale has won the painting award...
...Sing, will be further aroused by the publication of the ex-President's Diary. Edited by Author Morrie Ryskind, collaborator with George S. Kaufman in the play, it is the product of that scholar's diligent research: only after six months' digging (in the new subway on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue) did he finally succeed in unearthing it. It covers roughly the first four months of ex-President Wintergreen's administration. In its confidential pages the ex-President makes a clean breast of his official hair shirt...
...sacrifice. At this moment Powhida was sent in to relieve Jackson, despite the stiff workout he had had the day before when the Red and Blue bowed before Dartmouth. For the time being he forced the Crimson hitters to pop up with ineffectual flies, but loosened up in the eighth stanza, walking Gleason. A heroic single from McCaffrey's bat, scored the Harvard center fielder, and McCaffrey followed home on his heels when Lupien connected for a sizzling double...