Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed the Festival Quartet of South Mountain, when she determined, out of an insatiable craving...
...find them unfamiliar; they are pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings...
During the past week Coach Horween has been drilling his men on a pass defense and today should show an improvement in this department. The Matsu to Davis pass is reputed to be a dangerous weapon and will have to be watched by the University defense. The little Japanese quarterback who played a major role in last year's game was injured playing against Loyola two weeks ago, but is in good shape again. Davis is a veteran wingman who crossed the Crimson goal line last year when he snatched a pass, and is a slashing defensive player as well...
Matsu-Davis Pass Threatens...
...dummy scrimmage between, Teams A and B of the University, the Crimson regulars also gave considerable attention to the offensive use of the pass, with Putnam on the receiving end of several good heaves...