Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further information concerning the monster parade in Boston which the University contingent will join has been secured. Fourteen organizations, with a total of 12,000 members, will parade. There will be students from Boston College, Boston University and M. I. T. The blare of ten brass bands will vie with the yells of the marchers for supremacy in noise producing powers. The famous Whittall Huzzars of Worcester will march in full regalin, and each of the other delegations will have a distinctive uniform...
Barrie, of late maligned and accused of being saccharine and treacly-minded toward the general, is still to be contended with. On every evening of this week one may discover that "What Every Woman Knows" is still worth knowing and that this fourteen-year-old play has lost none of its sparkle and gayety, but is quite as droll and unspoiled as it was when Maude Adams mourned over her lack of "Charrum". It's a braw, bonnie show and how capitally the Copley forces...
...squad of fourteen players left Cambridge at 9.30 o'clock last night. J. E. Purdy '25, R. T. Smith '27, and A. P. Rubin '26 have been chosen as substitutes to accompany the eleven...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...
...Fourteen commercial passenger machines took off for a 120-mile race, soared about the pylons, were led home by the "On to Dayton" winner, a Curtiss-Oriole, averaging 125.05 m.p.h. Another $1,000 for Jones...