Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Shore's presence would increase the gate, he was allowed to play last week. Before the game, which Toronto won handily, 7 goals to 3, he and Bailey shook hands, chatted for a moment at the centre of the rink. Shore, once the most unpopular player in the league, was thereafter cheered for every play he made...
...American institution of higher education at Hanover, New Hampshire, last week held its Twenty-Fourth Annual Winter Carnival. According to custom the festivities were presided over by the Queen of the Carnival. This royal lady was chosen in the following manner: A committee of three deans stands beside the gate to the golf course where the outdoor celebration is held. As a young lady who measures up to the standards of Dartmouth passes through the gate, the deans point at her and shout "There's one," whereupon the fortunate girl is spirited away to the Outing Club House where...
...last week Doom came to life. In Doom's Pabst Hotel doors slammed early in the morning in the famed "corridor of princes." Down the street marched a score of young men and old, onetime kings and princes of Imperial German states. Under the gate arch hung with a pennoned canopy, through the palace entrance marked with the letter "W" in electric light bulbs, they trooped to salute their onetime King-Emperor. Then the black-suited company of men, led by Wilhelm, gave praise to the God of the Hohenzollerns. It was Wilhelm's 75th birthday...
George Rood loses his wife in childbirth at the time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial...
...determined effort to save winter and spring sports events from which the H.A.A. is forced to withdraw financial support under its recently revised budget, all managers are carrying on a week's campaign to persuade visiting teams to waive the customary minimum gate guarantees. Although no revised schedules under the new budget will be announced by the H.A.A. for another week, it is understood that telegrams have been pouring in from sports managers of scheduled colleges expressing their willingness to forego guarantees in order to avoid cancellation of their Harvard engagements...