Word: mix-up
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...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...
...best rumpus over referees' decisions since the Dempsey-Tunney mix-up was given football fans last week when the officials in two major games bungled up matters rather successfully. The facts of the cases have been already hammered into the heads of newspaper readers, but for the benefit of all let them be again repeated. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, refereeing the Brown-Yale tilt, allowed Clare Curtin, Eli tackle, to run with the ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line...
...Cantabrigians for Yale turned on the offense full force. It was only a question of time when the Bulldog would score since the third Crimson line gave little protection to deGive in the goal. Cookman, Yale substitute wingman, crashed through with the equalizer out of a mix-up in front of the Harvard net when the clocks said 6.45. Not content at a tie count the Elis kept up the battering of the Harvard citadel, and after several Yale shots had hit the posts Fletcher took a pass from Noyes that lured deGive out of the cage and converted...
After a goal early in the contest by Arthur, right-wing for the Green, Harvard came back in the second period to tie the score, with Pruyn making the tally from a mix-up in front of the Dartmouth net. The final frame furnished the spectators with plenty of action, for the lead changed hands twice, and not until 19 minutes and 50 seconds had elapsed, did Baldwin's goal on a pass from Putnam give Harvard its hard-earned victory. It was Baldwin, too. who had paved the way for the winning score a few minutes before, when...
Miss Pennington's spontaneity does not extend to the plot, which seems to an admittedly intolerant Playgoer just another refurbishing of ideas that were old even before "Jack O'Lantern" came to town. Such matter as the old pun about coffe-grounds, or the mix-up taken from O'Henry's "Gifts of the Magi," or the business of loading teacups with sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped...