Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers...
...story about a courtesan written by Alphonse Daudet, for his sons "when they are twenty," supplied Jules Massenet with a frail clothes line upon which to peg his watery songs. Chiefly because Mary Garden ("Our Mary") must every season have a new role, this Sapho was presented last week in Boston, first stop on the Chicago Civic Opera Company's annual midwinter tour...
...shifting its line-up at the middle of each period so as to have a fresh team constantly in action, the Dartmouth basketball quintet turned back Harvard Saturday night, 44-31. On the basis of comparative scores, the University five had been conceded at least an even chance of victory, but so effective was the Dartmouth plan of attack that the Crimson was never really dangerous...
...overwhelming defeat to the weak Nichols Club team by a 12-2 score. The contest was played on a very small rink and was marred by rough play on both sides. At no time were the New Yorkers a match for their smoother and faster opponents. The Crimson forward line took the disc up the ice time and again in a beautiful exhibition of coordination and team work. Both forward lines were used and proved equally efficient in driving the puck home. The work of the Crimson defense men was of a similar high grade, the Nichols forwards breaking through...
...Freshman team which will face Taft will line up as follows...