Word: longings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Herman P. ("Bo") Olcott, 49, all-American footballer (Yale, 1900); after a long illness; in Wallingford, Conn...
...ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when he wins a fight, was made even more than normally ferocious by a red worm of blood that crawled down into his left eye. In the eighth round he pushed Walker against the ropes, shouted, "Come...
When Clair Sloan got in, Nebraska won back the touchdown they had spotted Kansas. Before long Dutch Witte twisted 36 yd. for another. Nebraska 12, Kansas...
About to leave for Cuba as U. S. Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund...
Last week in Manhattan, a jolly little round-faced man walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed...