Word: oakleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book abounds in tall tales, wreaths of reminiscence, diverting digressions. Of Annie Oakley, famed deadshot of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he records that she was extremely stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets...
...Freshman Yale At New Haven CREW Varsity Navy, Penn., M.I.T. 4.00 P.M. Junior Varsity Navy, Penn.,M.I.T. 3.30 P.M. Freshman Navy, Penn.,M.I.T. 3.00 P.M. 2nd Freshman Groton At Groton 150 Pound Varsity Yale and Princeton At Princeton 150 Pound Freshman Yale At Derby GOLF Varsity New England Intercollegiates Oakley Country Club LACROSSE Varsity Dartmouth At Hanover Freshman Yale New Haven POLO Varsity Army At West Point TENNIS Varsity Yale 3.00 P.M. Freshman Yale 3.00 P.M. TRACK Varsity Dartmouth At Hanover
...reason was that the forty year graduates and families were starting their celebration. Yesterday they all left their headquarters in the Hotel Vendome and drove to the home of Parker W. Whittemore '95, in West Gloucester for an afternoon of sports, while their wives attended a luncheon at the Oakley Country Club. Today the members of the Class and families will lunch, along with 1890, in Lowell House, and attend the festivities in the afternoon. The Algonquin Club in Boston will be the scene of their reunion dinner tonight. Thursday with headquarters at Hollis 20, they will attend Commencement...
Having shown marked improvement during the last week, the Varsity golf team will seek its fourth win of the year today when it faces Pennsylvania at the Oakley Country Club. At the same time the entire squad will compete in the qualifying round of the New England Intercollegiate Tournament...
Friday the team will face Pennsylvania and Saturday the brilliant Princeton aggregation and Georgetown will meet Hodder's men over the Oakley course where at the same time, the players will be competing in the New England Intercollegiate medal tournament. Princeton, being undefeated, is naturally expected to set back the Crimson six, but Harvard is in an excellent position to spring an upset, since the Oakley course is short and tricky and Harvard will have an advantage in that they are familiar with the layout...