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...pleasant thing to enter any joust, especially since the radio and the press make of every salute a mighty warery But when there are so many other activities in which to attempt the spectacular, it is rather unfortunate that the fall guy, college football, must be worried from his vernal sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FALL GUY | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

...last someone has come to their defense--don Quixote like to joust at the legions of culture and criticism. For the "New Republic" has found a champion of billboard beauty who dares to deny that nature is ever beautiful--that man, as exemplified by billboards is always vile. "This attitude," he writes, "is illogical and irreligious. There are vast stretches in New Jersey and Nebraska where billboards give life to dull vistas and a reminder that life is tolerably active elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAUTY-BY THE BOARD | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

...indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Premier Ahmed Zogu, who recently began to joust with the Bishop Premier and Harvard Graduate Fan Stylian Noli, in an effort to oust him (TIME, Dec. 22), won the tournament. Premier Noli, with his cabinet, general staff and "a lot of money," fled the country last week into Italy and was Premier no more. He charged that Yugo-Slavia had aided Zogu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Cheers | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...report continued to have it that the joust over the oust was a fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Joust | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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