Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Guarnaccia '29, Horween's latest Sophomore find, and feared by opposing teams for his deadly flat aerial thrusts...
...fashion of life did not dawdle behind his ambition. One could not receive congressmen or even mayors, bought and paid for, in a flat. D. C. Stephenson built a formidable house at Irvington. Decorators from Indianapolis did what they could for him; he sent to New York for clothes and a few antiques. His taste ran to the oriental. Quite often now, behind the big yellow windows of his ballroom, saxophones giggled and clucked all night and limousines drove away in the early morning with the blinds pulled down. Odd callers were always waiting in his library, men of dignity...
...sister of Col. Albert A. Sprague, 1924 Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Inhabitants of Pittsfield and environs tell anecdotes of her troublesome deafness and marvel that her interest in music is so intense, little knowing that an ear unsensitive to hurly-burly street sounds and flat conversational tones is the more sensitive to nuance in musical vibrations...
...love. After all these years and years of nobility in difficult incognito, those who still relish such fare will find the Countess Maritza thoroughly edifying, highly seasoned with color and music, harmoniously staged. The same romantically inclined folk will overlook, in the general glamor, a turbulent succession of flat puns and desperate buffoonery. They will even forgive the unfortunate costume foisted upon handsome Songster Walter Woolf in the third act. They will thrill to the tinsel, to the song "Play "Gypsies", to the do-re-mi of routine musical comedy efficiently produced...
Champion Robert Tyre Jones turned in a medal-winning 143, which included a 70 composed of 16 pars and two birdies. One George Craig Jr. of Pittsburgh handed in a score that averaged a flat two strokes a hole more than Jones. Between these two came a discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles...