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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mannish, "tin cannish" khaki. Seven ladies paraded the platform in costumes of green wool with suede belts. The leaders delightedly voted that they should all dress that way. For Girl Scouts themselves, a pleated, roll-collared, one-piece slipover of green cotton twill was adopted, with sport hats to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Girl Leaders Meet | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Even if the Hoosier Band had arrived to match its skill with the best Harvard can offer, there would have been no consternation in the stands. For Harvard has confidence in its musicians--only too often, indeed, it has had to depend on them to defend its glory on the gridiron. Those exercisers of lung and finger carry the Crimson standard high as they parade through the goalposts--before the game--and again when they return courtesy for courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARTIAL MUSIC | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Cherry Valley | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success he quotes a platitude: "Observation and hard work." Critics have been impressed with the quick, deliberate way he lights a cigaret and extinguishes the match, never requiring more than the absolutely necessary movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bank Chief | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms getting maudlin over her. Casey finally challenges his rival to a wrestling match which looks discouraging for him of the shellacked locks until he tells Luke and Doris, the fair one's handle, that he was one time intercollegiate wrestling champion or captain of the Yale boxing team,--and how! Doris is not so sure, however, and at the L. and M. picnic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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