Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little apartments furnished with a show of opulence. The scenery is therefore different, a bit less polished, and a relief from drawing rooms. Then again, the play is unusually terse. At moments, the characters are voluble enough,--when they deviate into politics or prohibition,--but at the moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest of the significance is left to the histrionic efforts of the actors and the attentive understanding of the spectator. One cannot help regarding this feature as a solid dramatic virtue...
Again the University was given the ball on its 45-yard mark, and this time it took just six plays to score the second touchdown of the afternoon. The red shirts' advance this time was featured by a pretty 35-yard dash by Miller which put the ball in position where French took it across on the next try. Sayles missed his try for the goal...
Putnam was substituted for Hamlen at quarterback when the ball was brought out to midfield and the quarterback of last year's Freshman outfit dodged the scrub line for several subsequent spins. At the 20-yard mark Putnam elected to try for a goal from the fold and Chauncey easily negotiated the try for the three points...
...clock this afternoon with a meeting of all candidates in the Locker Building, it was announced last night by M. A. Cheek Jr. '26, captain and quarterback on last year's University eleven, who is in charge of class football this season. The interclass football this fall will mark the start of the University's new policy of athletics for all; and the opening activity on the definite program of inter-class sports which has been arranged...
...Sending bread to find drowned bodies occurs in Tom Sawyer and also in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. When Huck, escaped from his father after the latter has kidnapped him from Widow Douglas, runs away to Jackson's Island leaving signs of a foul murder, the townsfolk first fire cannon over the Mississippi River to try to raise his supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver...