Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor, or is it office boy? writes these biographical sketches does he not have available any significant data? Every time TIME has referred to this Grand Old Man of Arizona it has focused attention to these features rather than to the great contribution Hunt...
...Five of the six New England Governors (all but Rhode Island's Aram J. Pothier) sat down together in the waiting room of Boston's new North Station. The room had been converted for the moment into a banquet hall. They watched a light go on, made speeches. The light-lighter was, of course, President Coolidge, button-pushing in Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license...
...December 1 a reconditioning of the squad set in. The tilt at Pasadena with Oregon brought all there was of stamina and perseverance in the Harvard men, much effected by the heat. After a hard fought and very closely contested game, in which Harvard's shining light proved to be her later coach. Arnold Horween '20, the Crimson jerseyed fighters left the field 7 to 6 victors...
...Ticknor '30, tackies; J. E. Barrett '30 and J. N. Trainey '31, guards; B. H. Ticknor '31, center; E. T. Putnam '30, quarterback; A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaecia '29, halfbacks; and W. R. Harper '30, fullback was the eleven which ran through a light workout, kicking off and using some of its simpler plays and forward passes in signal drill. After ten minutes of this sort of exercise while the Crimson supporters cheered them on, the players trotted off the field leaving teams B and C and the seconds to hold the spotlight...
...show to the great Forum that is the Yale Bowl tomorrow. What place the market fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels the note novelty. Echoed into mind...