Word: mr
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coaching a crew from an airplane is not yet practical, although George Van Santvoord, who is one of Yale's coaches, tried it for the first time a few days ago. The first eight was on the harbor for practice, when Mr. Van Santvoord, in a plane with a professional pilot, flew over it. He attempted by megaphone and arm signals to direct the oarsmen, but found it impossible...
...experiment, Mr. Van Santvoord said yesterday that it was a novel experience, but that aerial coaching was not likely to replace the present system...
...have been following with increasing interest and decreasing sympathy the communications of Mr. Fairbanks. In Thursday's edition I see that Mr. Fairbanks is supported by two others...
...Mr. Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...