Word: fandom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
...dizzy heights of fourth or fifth place the Carriganites may well smile, for they are achieving the unheard of, and are bringing joy to the hearts of all Boston fandom. But perhaps the Hindu seer is slightly astigmatic, and just as Stalin and his confreres intend to have no more of the Romanoffs. Washington, Detroit and Chicago may soon tire of this prank...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...
Well, dear readers, this looks like a very large day. For before the last rays of the setting sun cease to cast a Crimson glow over the Green turf of the Great Allston Horseshoe (not bad, that, for an unliterary person), football fandom will be surprised, yea, shocked, for--but I'm not supposed to tell how Harvard games are to come out. That is part of the scouting agreement that Bill Roper, Tad Jones, and I made; and all good scouts keep their agreements just as regularly as they do their daily good turns. So I won't tell...