Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utmost importance," declared Manager Lyon Boston '26 yesterday, "that all aspirants for the '26 tennis team enter the tournament, as Coach Cowles plans to pick his squad from the men who finish highest in the tournament...
...polls opened and the polls closed, and New York City had chosen the candidates from which she will pick her next mayor. The great event of the primaries was the excision of Mayor John F. Hylan, who long has held sway over Manhattan under the aegis of Tammany and with the support of his friend, Mr. William Randolph Hearst...
Captain Jackson arrives at a roadside tavern and promptly pick; two fights. Duels were the custom of the country, and the hour set for the duels is early the next morning. Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time...
That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...