Word: getterism
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JAZZ MANIA-There is a queen, a Balkan country of the type that figures very prominently on the map of Hollywood and not so much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip...
...blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon will his old friends stop chaffing him about his adventure to see for himself how the "down- and-outers" were treated at the "institution" known as Wayfarers' Lodge...
...second and third places. R. D. Howard was the star performer in the track events, winning both the 100 and the 220-yard dashes, while H. R. Davis, who took first in the pole-vault and shot-put and came third in the high-jump, was the highest point-getter. Capt. J. E. Kennedy, former Andover leader, captured the title in the quarter-mile, while W. C. Bennett succeeded in winning first place in the mile...
Yale 1921 had a very strong, well-balanced team, with fresh men for every event. Captain L. N. Thurston was the leading point-getter, winning the 100-yard dash in the fast time of 58 seconds, and placing second to Binney in the fifty. The Yale yearlings had no difficulty in winning the relay in one minute, 48 2-5 seconds. The summary of events follows (the relay counted eight points for the winner and none for the loser...
Nash, who has the most consistently good record in all three branches, and has been to bat more than any of the others, is the leading run-getter with twelve tallies to his credit. Gannett ranks second with nine, and Fripp is third with seven...