Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quarterback Marsters rushed up and down the field with the ball under his arm. Dartmouth 34, Columbia 0. Yale and Brown started a football series 50 years ago, have played 35 times. Until last week Yale had won 29 times. Little Albie Booth, whose longest run was 16 yards, kept running till he made the 30th victory. Yale 14, Brown...
...first half Duke led the Navy by a point; in the second Duke's tired spunky team was worn down by a Navy squad kept fresh by substitutions. Navy 45, Duke...
Teetering on a dilemma was British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald last week. He had been persuaded to address the American Federation of Labor's convention at Toronto. Militant crusader for his Labor party, he faced the militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal balance. Said he: "In Great Britain I am a party man, unashamed of it, glorying in it, but here today . . . I represent the whole nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
...Canada is the greatest doctor on earth. . . . Is this Canada, or Paradise? . . . Oh, my friends. . . . Ah, my brothers. . . ." He kept it up all week, did James Ramsay MacDonald. Canadians, pleased, flattered, responded with such hospitable fervor that at last the Prime Minister of Great Britain mock-seriously cried: "Your kindness has been like that of the penguin, which stifles its young on account of its maternal love. I put in a plea . . . that your feasting may be restricted . . . tempered by charity to the delighted victim of your generosity." As he prepared to sail from Quebec, to reach London as near...