Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already won the first test at Brisbane, and the second at Sydney. The third, if they won, would clinch the series for them. Since a test usually lasts for a week or more, the inhabitants of Melbourne had plenty of time to watch. On the first days of play, the crowd was small. Then word got around that the Australians were making a fine stand and the grandstands began to fill...
...their first innings of the third match, England had 417 and Australia 397. When Australia had completed its second inning, the tourists went in to bat on a wicket that after a rain and five days of play was ridged and torn so that it favored the bowlers; it did not seem possible that the English batsmen would be able to reach 332 runs to win. Jack Hobbs gave the visitors their start; shortly after the interval for tea, he was bowled out with 49; Herbert Sutcliffe continued with Jardine and the day's play ended with nine wickets...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
There are fine scenes, fine moments in the play. The third act set, a huge room which suggests the wide staircases and the servants' hall behind it, has a dark, archaic grandeur...
...down at him and shouting. Not one of them would have changed places with him. The Rose Bowl Tournament has come to be in a sense the most significant football event of the year. At the end of each season, the best of the Eastern teams is invited to play the best team beyond the Rockies, in the Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army and N. Y. U. had been smashed by Stanford and Oregon Aggies, Georgia Tech was asked to come out West. It seemed at first that a lion...