Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little body contact. But, in the Rugby game the costumes were reduced to shreds to the amusement as well as to the amazement of the 500 spectators. Harvard easily won under their rules. The second game under McGill's Rugby rules was a scoreless tie. The proceeds of the gate with contributions from other sources totaled several hundred dollars, all of which was expended at the Parker House entertaining the visitors for two days and, as the historians report, "with Champagne flowing as it will never do again...
...woman writing for the daily press has more readers than a portly, hearty, white-haired old lady who lives in a little house high above San Francisco's Golden Gate. Nearly blind, ailing from diabetes and shingles, she celebrated her 72nd birthday last week in bed. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors stopped work long enough to pass a resolution wishing her "many happy returns." The Chief of Police sent flowers. So did Mayor Angelo Rossi, who is by trade a florist. But what warmed the old heart of Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils most was a pair...
Driving to catch a plane for New York, John 6 James Roosevelt, youngest & oldest sons of the President, failed to see the lowered gates and red lanterns at an East Boston railroad crossing. Splintering through the gates, John, at the wheel, swerved just in time to wedge his Plymouth coupe between a speeding train and a gate post. While moppets fought for the horn, headlights, windshield wiper of the wrecked car, Brothers John & James pronounced themselves unhurt. Next day Massachusetts' Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin exonerated Brother John...
...furtive, sharp-nosed, bandy-legged little man in peasant sackcloth kept trying persistently one night last week to get into the Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie at Addis Ababa. Darting through the outer gate, the little man was instantly collared by a sentry. The sentry called a sergeant and after much whispering the little man was released, promptly sneaked through the second gate and was pounced on again, once more whispered, was once more identified and got away. Easing through the third gate the little man was almost strangled by a pantherlike sentry, but again a sergeant and more whispers...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...