Word: placidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania crews arrived at Newell boathouse about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and as soon as their shells were rigged, left for the Basin. Being accustomed to the placid waters of the Schulykill, they had an excellent chance to become acclimated to conditions on the Charles yesterday, for heavy rain and a wind-swept basin greeted the Red and 'Blue oarsmen. The workout of the Penn crews was comparatively short, consisting merely of rowing the course...
...girl's prosecution is pushed by a political boss anxious to hush her up in her fight to make him pay for crippling her brother. But a young attorney saves her by a stall. Artificial but well-wrought complications carry the story along. Agnes Ayres looks pretty but placid as the girl, and Antonio Moreno seems a bit too romantic for a mere lawyer...
...investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
...skaters from the Northland have played the Elis on three occasions; twice in practice games at Lake Placid, and once in a bona fide engagement in New Haven. Dartmouth has gone under every time, but from all accounts the failure of the spectacular Captain Hall to rally in the third fracas was entirely due to Jenkins, the genius who presides over the Yale net. Cumings played his best game of the year last Monday against the Tiger, but he is still a long way from the Blue goal-tend, and will have to sharpen his eye tonight if he expects...
...suffering from injuries, it is Charles Davis, who met Van Gerbig head-on in practice some time ago and slightly pulled a body muscle. Davis was out of practice two weeks, and only returned last Friday, while members of the squad were holding informal sessions at Lake Placid...