Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rugbymen américains," led by a onetime Notre Dame Horseman named Jim Crowley, had been imported by the Paris-Soir to demonstrate their outlandish game-"a game so brutal that it was banned in the U. S. by the first President Roosevelt, and finally universities were allowed to play it, but only between October and January like a sort of hunting season...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
American League bigwigs, following in the four-year-old tracks of the National League, granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...
...Harvard Dramatic Society had some very fine days eight or nine years ago; I haven't heard of it at all lately," said Thornton Wilder, during a recess from the rehearsal and revision of his newest play, "A Merchant of Yonkers," which is finishing a tryout run in Boston this week...
Wilder has been noted for his experimentation with techniques of expression; his prize winning play, "Our Town," was produced without scenery. Wilder explained this unusual approach as an attempt to re-enlist the imaginative collaboration of the audience by reducing the scenery to mere symbol, and a frank underscoring of the theatre as an illusion and a make believe...