Word: plays
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...Whiskers & Fair Play. In the fall of 1876 T.R. went to Harvard. Rarely had a young man and an old university seemed less compatible. T.R., reddish-whiskered and rampaging, was contemptuous, for example, of Harvard's "fair play" political consciousness. Wrote he: "I have not the slightest sympathy with debating contests in which each side is arbitrarily assigned a given proposition and told to maintain it . . . There is no effort to instill sincerity and intensity of conviction." As he moved out of Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, becoming a college boxer, courting and later marrying a Chestnut Hill belle...
...like the course of treatment we received," cried Standard Oil's John D. Archbold. The President maneuvered through Congressional bear trapes to get the U.S.'s first Pure Food bill. He got the U.S.'s first law providing for federal inspection of slaughterhouses. After a power play in Congress with the G.O.P. right wing, after ^a masterful display of coalition-juggling and issue-juggling, T.R. also got for the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to fix railroad rates. T.R. was thus the great working pioneer of the 20th century's whole new trend toward federal commissions...
Puccini's Madame Butterfly has always suffered from a kind of triple cultural vision. Based on an American story (by John Luther Long) and play (by David Belasco), it tells what an Italian thinks an American would feel if he went ranching with a Japanese girl. Most of the time, this confusion is compounded by the staging. In the words of an old Far East hand, Cornelius V. Starr, Butterfly productions usually present "a kind of tourist Yokohama, or half New York Chinatown...
Into TV's big bin of parlor games last week fell one of the oldest and simplest: bingo. With the legalized numbers game breaking records in New Jersey, and New York State* all set to play, Manhattan...
Opening day, thousands of housewives dropped their after-lunch chores to play, and within ten minutes some 5,000 phone callers had deluged the station's specially installed phones to ask questions or cry "Bingo!" The exchange was so badly jammed that the New York Telephone Co. pleaded with the station to stop airing the phone numbers, but within the hour 35,000 more calls flooded in. Next day the station asked winners to send in their diagrams by mail. The prizes ranged from a $500 TV set to a tankful of fish...