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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the jury found for Miss Adele; and Mr. Justice Humphreys was obliged to sentence the constables to 18 months imprisonment for "conspiracy to prefer a false charge...
...backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...famed Herb Joesting who pushed his backfield bravely along last season. He regarded Bronko Nagurski as a potential fullback and, having noticed his celerity, he suggested, immediately, this position to the enormous player. So powerfully did Nagurski function in fullback capacity that a nickname ("The Big Nag") was found for him and he became the first of the autumn heroes. Due in some part to the momentum with which the Big Nag's heavy hindquarters propelled his shoulders through a Creighton line, Minnesota won its opening game, 40?...
...Lubradovitch and Bachus found it easy to deceive Bezi and Leppig, while the Wisconsin backfield performed sleight of hand behind them and beat Notre Dame, to the extensive surprise of all sports experts, by a score...
...Army, faced with such sturdy Southern Methodists as Baccus, Roach and Watters, found it difficult to proceed, even by forced marches. Cagle, the West Point halfback, dodged through them several times. The final score was 14?13; the Methodists had missed one kick after touchdown...