Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, "Red Cap" porters in the Pennsylvania station promised each to give a dollar a year to found a scholarship for that porter's son who has the highest mark in English, mathematics, history and chemistry. He must be "an obedient boy to his parents and teachers"; he must "desire to make his mark in the world"; he must be "sound in body and mind." The first winner of the scholarship, Marcus Carpenter, 19, is now a freshman at Howard University, Washington...
...Hartford, Conn., one Wesley B. Porter, 66, for 25 years Town Auditor (Republican), ran last week for reelection. "Good old Porter," said the citizens, elected him as usual, went to his house to inform him of the event, found crêpe on the door. Auditor Porter had died the night before...
...Little World's Series" (Baltimore versus Louisville), Joseph Deberry, Louisville pitching star, smiled confidently at the first Oriole batter who faced him in the fourth inning of the eighth game for the minor league championship. In that inning two sturdy Baltimorons, Batters Porter and Brainard, smashed home runs over the centerfield fence, brought in three runs with the result that Deberry, no longer smiling, was removed from the box and Baltimore gained a lead which gave them the game, 5 runs to 2, the series 5 games...
Forward passes featured the second scoring drive by the Freshmen. A toss from French, who starred at Worcester, to Porter led up to the tally. Another pass, French to Putnam, put the ball across the line and French added the extra point...
Only four months after its last appearance there, "The Bad Man", Porter Emerson Browne's famous comedy, is back on the Copley stage with Alan Mowbray again swaggering about and smoking innumerable cigarettes in the character of Pancho Lopez, the swash-buckling, villainous and altogether charming bandit hero...