Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sultan's anger last week shook his abode. The ungrateful Tarhata desired to marry a provincial officer, one Datu Tahil, who was unable to offer a royal dowry. The Sultan explained to Tarhata that the match was beneath his dignity. She incontinently left his harem. Following this incident the Princess Emme declared her intention of marrying a Filipino. The proud Moro eyes of the Sultan shot lightnings. He did not deign to explain that his daughter could not marry a dog of a Christian. She too left the Sultanic residence...
Upon the Plaza de la Constitución towered a great funeral pyre. From a platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...
...been so arranged that the University and Yale are on opposite ends of the five-team draw. The second game to be played tomorrow is the P. M. C. Army clash. On Wednesday, the P. M. C. Army winner meets Yale, while the two previous losers play a consolation match; and on Friday, the Yale march winner faces the Harvard Princeton winner for the intercollegiate title...
...first outdoor event of the polo season, officials of the Intercollegiate Polo Association expect the largest crowd of spectators that has ever witnessed a college match. Many prominent sportsmen are to be present among whom will probably be Mayor James J. Walker, of New York City. His honor has been asked to throw out the ball for the first flit. The New York official is known to be an ardent polo fan, and will attend his engagements permit...
...University will meet Princeton in the first match of the tournament, at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. At the conclusion of this match, West Point will meet the riders of the Pennsylvania Military College. On Wednesday the Yale four will meet the winners of the soldier match while on the following Saturday the finals will be contested...