Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick...
Chief decliners were from Virginia where Bishop James Cannon Jr. had again been cannonading against the Smith-Raskob leadership. Senator Carter Glass found an engagement in Baltimore on the night of the dinner. Senator Claude Swanson had to go to New Bern, N. C., that evening. They both said they would have otherwise attended the Shouse dinner...
...football men returning to college next fall are urged to send in their summer addresses and shoe and hat sizes to the Harvard Athletic Association before leaving college, according to a statement made last night by W. P. Lage '30, football manager...
Frank Nekola, Holy Cross portsider who defeated Harvard last Saturday, signed a pitching agreement with the New York American League baseball club two years ago, according to a reported announcement from Judge Landis unconfirmed last night. O'Donnell, director of athletics at Holy Cross, received the following telegram late yesterday afternoon from Judge Landis' secretary: "Nekola agrees to join the New York Yankees, June 22, for specified salary which will begin the day he reports...
...story is true, this means that Nekola's days as a college pitcher are over. "The best we can do if the report is confirmed," O'Donnell said late last night, "Is to write our apologies to any colleges he pitched against after signing the agreement, and forfeit the games in which he participated after the agreement was signed...