Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent public, eager doubtless to see the sumptuous settings, crawled, in surreptitious droves, to see Chee-Chee...
...Hapgood '21, husband of the Socialist candidate, Professor A. S. Coolidge '15 of the Department of Chemistry and Lincoin Fairley '23 of the Department of Social Ethics. Hapgood has been an active participant in the recent struggles over the Saceo Vanzetti case, and the later attempts of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage cut in the soft coal fields...
...request of a friend of mine, a sporting editor of a Chicago paper," De Voto began, "I agreed to write an article on football. In this I mentioned the physiological fact that excitement causes adrenalin to flow through the veins of the athletes, deadening pain, supposing this to be a commonly known fact. Whereupon a Des Moines writer accused me of libel, saying that I had falsely accused Conference coaches of doping their...
...Coolidge '15, and Lincoln Fairley '23, Hapgood, who is the husband of the Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, was active last year in the fight to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti and has taken prominent part in the recent struggles of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage-cut in the soft coal fields...
Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...