Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, "Fireman, Save My Child", which burlesques the rivalry which used to exist between the old volunteer fire companies, W. W. Ryan '30 will play the role of the "heroine", while F. R. G. Giddens '30 will take a comic part...
...itch to play politics overcame him again in 1924 and he ably commanded the Coolidge western campaign. In 1928 he looked around for another Presidential winner. He looked at General Dawes and looked away. He looked at Secretary Hoover, saw his popular appeal, pitied his political inexperience. Again he took command, this time of the Hoover preconvention campaign, doing a miraculous job of amalgamating the heterogeneous Hoover following. After the nomination, Mr. Hoover begged him to stay on as Western manager. Reluctantly he did. There was less begging, less reluctance, to get Mr. Good into the Hoover Cabinet...
Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend and George Bernard Shaw, 42, were married in 1898. She had just nursed him back to health after a severe accident. She is gracious, completely self-effacing, smart, Irish. Her principal achievement has been to translate most of the plays of Eugene Brieux-previously considered an obscene French playwright by most Englishmen-and to get them triumphantly produced in London, after years of bickering with the Lord-Chamberlain, Britain's play censor...
Almost nobody is too poor to play in the State Lottery at Naples which is drawn every week. Though a very beggar may have but 50 centesimi (2½?), one of the 150 state banks will let him risk his all. Shoals of poor people win petty sums every week. But naturally the most stupendous prizes-paid on luckiest combinations of lucky numbers-turn up only once or twice in a decade. Six years ago $2,000,000 was won on the series 8, 65, 90, and ever since, with a peculiar fatalism, thousands of people in Southern Italy have...
This afternoon, three Harvard squash teams will see action. Team A meets the University of Pennsylvania, Team C engages Newton Centre at Newton, and the Freshmen play the Union Boat Club...