Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
Jauntily, impishly, Edward of Wales appeared in evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...ordinary night express from London pulled into smoky Newcastle, H. R. H. emerged from a common-first class sleeping car, accompanied only by Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private secretary. Together they tramped over to the Station Hotel, unwelcomed, unescorted, and there they took a room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak...
...horrors of starvation he had seen. Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks. But Englishmen are not like that. With duty done, H. R. H. hopped a local train for Melton Mowbray, his favorite hunting centre. After a sound night's sleep he seemed his cheerful self again, sprang to horse, and galloped off with many another after a frightened little red fox. The horse fell and sprained a foreleg, but Edward of Wales kept his seat, as he usually does, and fell with? not from?his beast...
...Last night, as another development of the situation, six editors of the Lampoon reported at the CRIMSON Building when the University daily opened its competition to Sophomores and Freshmen