Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...painted ship upon a painted ocean is the Ambrose. Until last week she had not moved, except up and down with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a generation in her saloon was for once interrupted, her crew of 14 at last had something to do besides polish brass and blow the siren, as she pointed her blunt prow for a momentous voyage...
...laymen a gridiron evening constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could...
Before the hockey season opened, officials of the National Hockey League passed rules designed to make a fast game a fast scoring game. They ruled that the forward pass, hitherto barred except in a team's own territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate...
Tonight the University basketball team is to meet Pratt Institute in Brookline. New York, in their third game of the season. Tomorow night the team will journey over to New York City had play the strong Columbia University quintet...