Word: lone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William G. McAdoo, busily engaged in rounding up delegates to the Democratic National Convention, took himself to Manhattan. There he conferred with David Rockwell of Ohio, one of his pre-convention campaign managers, and received the assurances of Thomas B. Love, Democratic National Committeeman from Texas, that the Lone Star state would be solidly behind him at the Convention. Mr. McAdoo has the most votes lined up for the Democratic Convention of any candidate, but he has far fewer than the necessary 729(one-third). New York is adverse to his advances and he places his main confidence...
...rare that a Harvard team is outplayed in every department of the game. Yet on Saturday Dartmouth was so powerful as to smother any attempted offense of the Crimson, and when on the defense, with the lone exception of Hubbard's superb playing, the Crimson forwards were dwarfted by the Green line, which found little trouble in opening holes for their backs and even swinging into the interference...
...play of the University was a great disappointment and the backfield never seriously got underway. Hammond, who was overworked, frequently received the ball seven or eight yards behind the line and raced toward an end with an imposing interference before him. But when he got to the line some lone, blue shirt was always waiting,-and another down was gone. Howe usually plunged into the back of one of his own forewards, who had failed to make the called for hole. Cheek, the other half, played hard, but with the single exception of his 18 yard run to a touchdown...
...LONE WOLF RETURNS-Louis Joseph Vance-Dutton ($2.00).Michael Lanyard, super-gentleman and super-crook, has faultless evening clothes unruffled by a life of practically continuous crime. Opera-hat in one hand, revolver in the other, spurred on, as the jacket says, by the love of a good woman, he wages horrendous warfare for 367 pages against the underworld henchmen of the bootlegger King of New York. Needless to say the finale finds him triumphant...
...lone she-wolf in the historic cage on the Capitol of Rome is dead...