Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the thump of congratulation. In the end, it may be well to leave the public recognition of good losers to those who first discovered it, and to apply the funds saved in this way to commemorate the man who first engaged in college athletics because he liked to play games...
...Louis, Bill McKechnie was deposed, despite the fact he won the league pennant last year, and replaced by Billy Southworth, who managed Rochester (International League) last year. In Boston President Emil Fuchs has announced that he will be manager in name and that the team's play will be directed by a board of three, the other members being Johnny Evers and Hank Gowdy, oldtime stars. This is a new departure, viewed with skepticism...
...sorry, sir," says the butler over the telephone, "Mr. Wallace is writing a play and must not be disturbed before it's finished. . . . What's that, sir? . . . You'll hold the wire...
Small wonder that Author Wallace, indefatigable, portly and debonair, lives a crowded schedule. He begins the day at 7 o'clock by consuming eight newspapers, dictates mysteries until 10 a.m., breakfasts, resumes writing until 1. In the afternoons he supervises his play rehearsals, inspects cinema versions of his stories, or attends the races. He owns a string of horses and squanders a literarily fabulous income...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...