Word: placid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tied one, while on three occasions it has been handed defeats by club outfits--the New Haven Bears and the Cleveland Athletic Club. More than half of its engagements, eight in all, were crowded into the Christmas recess, when the squad journeyed first to Cleveland and subsequently to Lake Placid. The Dartmouth and Williams stickmen were also passing their holidays at the winter resort, so that the Elis were well entertained...
...same day Canada walloped Czechoslovakia 30-0. Sweden, which was well regarded, lost prestige by defeating Switzerland only 9-0. The French Olympic Committee gave out the final scores for the skating events: Finland, 62½; Norway, 491/2 ; U. S., 11; Sweden, 1; France, 1. Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid, scored most...
Miss Nash displays a most astonishing versatility which extends from the difficult rapids of soubrette song-and-dance to the placid waters of benign old age. When her emotional explosion occurred, coincident with the loss of her child, an elderly matron sitting next your correspondent half rose in her seat and audibly protested its injustice. More conclusive witness of the power of a performance is seldom seen in the Theatre...
Information obtained last night from officials at the Boston Arena confirmed the report current earlier in the day that the Princeton hockey team would spend its Christmas vacation in Boston. In the past the Tigers have passed the holidays at Lake Placid, but this year it has been definitely decided that they will stay in Boston...
...been so successfully presented by the Boston Stock Company in the past that it has become the regular Thanksgiving-week play at the St. James. If it has always been as skilfully done as it was Monday night, its popularity is not surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level of quaint humor and light philosophy, "Shavings" himself, the kindly, absent minded...