Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groom's father, James B. Burnett legally took his mother's name ? Lowell...
...Bostonians were thwacking each other at the Yankee Stadium in New York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay, whose battling name is "Jack Sharkey," knocked down 202½-pound Bostonese-Irishman Edward James Maloney. There were 52 seconds in the fifth round, during which Maloney twice found himself prostrated on the canvas. The second time he did not rise unaided; so the referee ruled that Cukoschay had won by a knockout...
...Telephone Girl (Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn). A political boss uncovers illicit love in his opponent's past. But he needs the name of the lady involved to make the scandal complete. After a frantic search pivoting about the telephone girl, he discovers the faintly scarlet woman is his daughter. Speedy melodrama capably acted...
Until the last two decades, the college president was as important a part of undergraduate life as the campus fence. Not to have sat frequently on, or been sat on by, one or the other was not to have been to college. "Prexy" knew most of the students by name, invited them to his house for tea. He preached to them in chapel and, in smaller colleges, he often had a lecture course. Fame was achieved by the student who could best imitate "Prexy's" peculiarities. The college president of last century was a Campus Character...
Today, the heads of the larger colleges and universities tend to bear the same relation to the students as the presidents of oil companies bear to the motorists who stop at filling stations. The average student knows the name of his president, has heard him make one or two speeches, suspects that he is a busy man running the university and raising funds...