Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the fall football season at least, it is a physical impossibility to pick up a Boston paper which does not contain some news on Harvard football practice. Who writes this stuff, and why is it necessary it undoubtedly is for a man to read more than one paper if he is really to "follow" Harvard on the gridiron...
...Willard, Yale '26: "I deplore the petty collegiate fashion of calling the Co-op the 'Coop'. The former, as at Yale, is more dignified. Moreover, do the clubs at Harvard pick the men of merit or merely the athletic stars...
...screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll. A mocking shadow ran after him for the next few years, whispering an insult in his ear every time the crowds at Ringling's sat silent when he twisted an eyebrow at them. By 1920, he used to pick up dollars by coming in at business men's dinners and trying to make the solemn faces crack...
...course there was that little blonde from Cleveland who induced me to forecast Ohio to beat Princeton, but I don't mention that. Nor do I reveal the reasons of state that led me to pick Brown over Dartmouth- though they would surprise...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...