Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daley '27, regular guard on the Harvard football team, will undergo an operation for appendicitis this morning according to an announcement made in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. Dr. T. K. Richards '15, Harvard football physician for the last few years, will perform the operation...
Harry Houdini, prestidigitator, handcuff king, foe of charlatan spiritists: "As I was about to perform my 'Chinese water-cell trick'* on the stage of the Capitol Theatre at Albany, N. Y., faulty stage tackle let the ponderous wood-and-iron stock fall upon my left foot, crushing it. Though my supple feet and ankles constitute great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked...
...excellent piece of newspaper writing-brief, specific. It quoted Bob Paine's autobiographic "obit," the "morgue" story to be printed at his death: "Bob Paine has passed on-he was damned well entitled to it." It recounted the enthusiastic, hard work he is still able to perform at 70 (he was born in 1856). Most of all it emphasized an injunction Mr. Scripps had once given him: "I want you to clean the questionable and dirty medical ads out of my papers. Clean 'em out, no matter who yells, understand?" Then the Press comment: "There were yells...
John Pierpont Morgan, Manhattan financier: "Last year I qualified for jury duty in my home county of Nassau, L. I. I then told the Commissioner of Jurors that I believed every citizen should be willing to perform jury service when called. Last week my name was drawn for service on the Grand Jury during the October session. I was in Europe, not to return until December or January...
...Vocal Club will sing old college songs, a few light classical pieces, and other popular melodies. Its purpose is to each the fundamentals of group singing and keep active the traditional college songs. The Vocal Unit will not take part in any combined concerts but will perform at all local appearances of the Instrumental Clubs...