Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...
...mite; then, to sugar-coat the whole with a lovable uncle who pets the cat and helps along the matrimony. When Broadway's last niece and nephew have chortled with childish glee over Tomany, it will probably be seized upon by all the stock companies throughout the land. Juvenile William Janney, Ingenue Peg Entwistle, Character Actors Lloyd Neal and Sidney Toler do well...
...never made his letteer at Andover and yet he won innumerable races and was clocked in 49 1-5 for a quarter in winning the Yale dual meet in 1926. W. L. Tibbetts '26 was a mediocre half-miler at Worcester and the greatest two-miler in the land when he finished college E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of this year's team, never was a great star, and yet he has won three Intercollegiate Mile Championships in four starts. L. O. Combs '26 had done 9.2 in the vault at school, and in his Senior year...
...great work, after the first year, for Leo Strakosch, clever artist, to return to Vienna disguised as a Frenchman, ignite the discontent of land-poor landlords, disseminate the idea that with the Jews happiness had been exiled, overthrow the Government, get the ban repealed, regain his Christian fiancée and be hailed by the populace and mayor of Vienna as "beloved...
What is alluded to as "a direct thrust at the drinking situation" has been made by the authorities of Williams College in requiring a pledge from every member of each fraternity to obey "The laws of the college, the state and the land" before permission is granted for the annual house parties and festivities. It is reported that most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing...