Word: leading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exeter presents a more formidable opposition than the Blue Crosby flashy right win is expected to lead a fast attack against the Crimson. The school boys only recently took the measures of the Browne and Nichols outfit 3 to 1, and have been improving steadily ice conditions in the Granite State being especially favorable...
Since it has no civic company of its own Boston must of necessity depend on Chicago for the opera season. For two weeks all roads lead to Huntington Avenue and Mary Garden's adventures are bruited about the streets by yodeling news boys. But short though the festival is for residents of Boston it is even shorter for Harvard students. Due to the devious machinations of booking offices the Chicago Company invariably plays in Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent...
...complicated to American voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic feature of a new city charter. In 1924, Cincinnatti followed Cleveland's lead. In 1926 Hamilton, Ohio, did likewise. It is now in use in Ireland for choosing the members of the national parliament at Dublin, and also of the parliament of North Ireland...
...merry ditty on the hunt introduces us to the Hall of Fame, which is unfortunate in itself because the lead is not characteristic, and the rhyme scheme, borrowed from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...most savory of all "Drivurself" merles is the story of the man whose hired car lead to his "social degradation" when its obstinacy en route to New Haven prevented him from keeping two dates and from seeing the Yale game. In his indignation he sued and now has $30 to his credit in a "Drivurself" concern which sum is to be expended in driving whenever he so desires...