Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Die Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The...
This unique contest is an interesting way of providing competition between three class teams, and at the same time giving the Seconds opportunity to meet different combinations on attack and defense. Coach Knox's Seconds have been busy during the last week putting on Army plays for the benefit of...
The only injury of any consequence which resulted from Monday's fracas was sustained by Levin, 197-pound tackle, and it will in all probability keep him on the sidelines when the Wildcats visit the Stadium. Myerson, Mays, Charles Devens, Lewis, and Burns all received minor bruises which kept them...
Whatever individual glory the pair received last year accrued largely to Trainer who had the good fortune to escape the injury jinx throughout the entire season. That is to say he escaped all injury which kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on...
U. S. newspapers dwelt fondly on the word "filibuster" in describing the Curaçao fracas, harked back to Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry.