Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would...
Onetime Star Reporter Norman Klein told his reasons to the American Press (newspaper trade journal). Said he: "Newspapering is a young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht...
...University soccer team will present a new lineup when it opposes the Navy at Annapolis this afternoon in the first of its two games of the Southern trip. Victory in these two holiday clashes will mean that Harvard, for the first time in several years, will enter the Yale game a favorite. A decided scoring punch and a cohesive defense have been built up which augurs well for success today...
Football is not the simple sport that it used to be. An intersectional game today involves special trains, hide-outs for pre-game rest, newspaper reporters and front page publicity. A too well traveled team smacks highly of advertising and of gate receipts. But like all good things, there is safety in moderation. The fanfare and beating of drums in Ann Arbor today reflects the spirit-of youth; out for the conquest of football foes and the winning of new friends...
...Union will show the full details on its grid graph in the Living Room, beginning at 2.30 o'clock and admitting to Union members only. Spectators at the Harvard Freshman - Dartmouth Freshman game will get an opportunity to follow the clash in the middle west by the grid graph on Soldiers Field. Other places where the game will be picked out of the air from the WBZ broadcasting station and verbally distributed to the fans will be Leavitt and Peirce's and the lobby of the University Theatre...