Word: locker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross-country season gets under way this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when candidates for the University and Freshman teams report to Coaches Farrell and Mikkola in the Locker Building on Soldiers Field...
...against such runners as Ellsworth, "Red" Haggerty, Byron Cutcheon. To begin with, Lowe was tired. He had already spent himself to take the half-mile in the fast time of 1:53 2/5; moreover, it was obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they ran until 150 yards from the end. Then Lowe, as if he had strapped the wind...
BARBER SHOP BALLADS-Edited by Sigmund Spaeth-Simon & Schuster ($2.00). That summer nights may be less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical...
House of Commons: ¶ Commander Locker-Lampson, Under Secretary for Home Affairs, was asked by an irate private member who was responsible for selecting Jacob Epstein's memorial to William H. Hudson, the naturalist, whose stone effigy in panel (TIME, June 1, ART) is situate in Hyde Park. Comdr. Lampson replied: "The First Commissioner of Public Works in the Labor Government [Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowett]." A Labor Member hastened to say that a large number of people thought the memorial was distinguished and appropriate. Several Conservatives thought otherwise. One: That all memorials likely to cause acrimonious discussion...
More effective was an address delivered to another Southern team which invaded the North. On this occasion the coach relinquished his privilege of providing the last words and called an old gentleman into the locker room. And the voice of the veteran rang out like a trumpet call. He spoke of the Civil War and of how the South had held the Yankees back four years. There was a line not to be split by any Yankee plunger. And the sons of Rebs could do it again. The old man called on the excited youngsters to remember Stonewall Jackson...