Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis, can play the violin. His two brothers are professional musicians. He dislikes applause and has his hair cut short...
...Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth...
...soccer team closed a poor season Saturday morning by losing to Yale-Freshmen, 2 to 0. The Crimson first year men, although they had shown a better record than their opponents, were unable to tally at all, and finished with a record of three wins and four losses...
...score--Yale 1933 2, Harvard 1933 1. Goals--O'Mears, Fisher. Referee--Anderson. Time--Four 23-minute periods...
...score--Harvard 2, Yale 1, Goals--Broadbent 2, Morris. Referee--Jenkins. Time--four 22-minute periods and two 5-minute overtime periods...