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...Your order of so-called suspension has reached me and amused me very much," telegraphed the warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City, Col., to Gov. Clarence J. Morley last week. Then the warden (Thomas J. Tynan by name) stationed machine guns and armed guards on his prison walls. No one dared enter to serve suspension papers on Warden Tynan. Said he: "You can say for me-and I don't mean maybe-that anyone trying to break into this prison will get the same dose as anyone trying to break out." Jesting friends of Governor Morley took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...least the organization termed the Book-of-the-Mouth Club is possessed of a fearless Seleering Committee. Twice has the honor of being the best book been awarded to authors formerly unknown to literature. The judges including such people as Henry Seidel Canby, Heywood Broun, and Christopher Morley, are also evidently good precursors of popular taste, for almost every prize winner eventually reaches the list of best sellers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VANGUARDS OF FAME | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like Christopher Morley he is a strong advocate of the Three Hours for Luncheon Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOURMAND-GOURMET? | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

Basketball was originally a religious sport and had its beginnings a thousand years ago in the limestone pits and courts of Yucatan, according to Dr. S. G. Morley '07, who for three years has been directing excavations at Chichea Itza, a city of the ancient Maya Indians in northeast Yucatan under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yucatan Mayas Took Their Basketball Seriously 1000 Years Ago--Goals So Rare, Scorer Was Allowed to Loot Spectators | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...ceremonial worship of some unknown god, the Mayas played a game which might be the ancestor of our modern game of basketball" declared Dr. Morley in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "We have found the great stone courts in which this game was played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yucatan Mayas Took Their Basketball Seriously 1000 Years Ago--Goals So Rare, Scorer Was Allowed to Loot Spectators | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

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