Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston is admittedly a good sports town. For years the city has supported with unfailing faith and loyalty two of the lowliest baseball teams which the major leagues have every held over a long period of time. There is no place in America that goes wilder over hockey Football games and boxing matches draw crowds more enthusiastic than those of larger cities, and the annual fixtures in tennis, golf, and track and field are noted on every social calendar...
When John Drew died in July 1927, the deanship of the U. S. stage passed from the Drawing Room to the Library. It might have gone into the Bed Room, but aging David Belasco had long since carried his pawkiness beyond the point where he could command respectful attention. Besides, vague though the title is, the Dean of the Stage should be an actor, if possible...
Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him for that Midnight Frolic which Mr. Ziegfeld insists is "atop" the New Amsterdam Theatre. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant...
Flyer LeBrix was the more forehanded in the race. He took off from the Istres Airdrome near Marseilles, long before dawn of a freezing day last week. He was well over the Mediterranean towards Tunis when press despatches reached Flyer Costes at Paris...
...sentences suffice for Mr. Brock to dismiss the objections of Harvard men to the plan; probably he has not been exposed to these objections for long, and in any event an outsider lacks the close contact of those near to the subject. While this proximity may in some instances blind one to the large significances which are said to be apparent at a distance, it does induce an appreciation of more intimate aspects which appear equally pertinent...