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With a makeshift lineup, the inspired Feslermen started off by running up eight points on the startled Elis before a single blue shot touched the hoop. Then the Blue team swung into action, and with long Tommie Wilson controlling the tap, Bud, Miles and his cohorts rang up twelve quick markers. Charley Kollinites tied it up with a pair of field goals as the half ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM LOSES TO YALE QUINTET , 36-24 | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

Referee Cohalan frowned dangerously. "Women don't dress in crinoline or hoop skirts any longer." growled he. "They wear lounging pajamas. Just because a woman comes in and takes off her coat and puts on lingerie doesn't mean that she is about to commit adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Full Dress | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...newly uniformed Lowell five made its flashy dobut upon the courts of the House Basketball League today and pierced the hoop for 18 points to their Brooks House opponents' five. The Bellboys' outfit consisted of a blue jersey and white whipcord trousers with a blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

Throwing the ball through the hoop from every angle and position on the floor the Boston University Freshmen defeated the Crimson yearling basketeers, unbeaten in three previous starts, by a 39-31 score, on the B.U. court yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Freshmen Deteat 1938 Hoopsters in Close Contest | 12/21/1934 | See Source »

Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound, sang out: "Dear Mister Hearst: This is your birthday cake speaking to you to give you the greetings of your friends assembled here and your friends all over the world to wish you happiness this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birthday Scene | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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