Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
...hoped that the Government will devote its energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black...
...Carroll's second best guess was Joe Cook. In the music halls Mr. Cook was what is known as a "wow." Particularly was he famous for his involved absurdities relating to just why a man of his wealth and position should not be called upon to imitate four Hawaiians. Counting on the permanent wave of popular esteem to carry him through the Vanities, Mr. Carroll gave him infinite opportunity. Mr. Cook fell down. He fell down not once but many times. The first few times it was funny...
Married. Ex-Senator Richard F. Pettigrew, 75, to Mrs. Roberta Smith, 50., of Chicago, at New York. The marriage took place last February, but was not announced until recently " for personal reasons." Said Mrs. Pettigrew: "So long as people are talking so much, I guess we may as well tell...
...instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini is a man of very uncertain years. Sixty is a usual guess at the figures. Certainly the man is a prodigious veteran. He has been singing year in and year out here in America for a vast stretch. It is related that he sang the tenor role in the first American performance of La Boheme. Of course, you may mention the name...