Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hawked and Wonson of Dartmouth were the first man home in the Freshman race, while A.T. Throne, W.P. Tuttle, J.D. Light body, E.V. Clark, and F.L. Porter in third, fourth, sixth, eight, and tenth positions brought the victory for the Mikkola younger...
...most modern readers the tricky, concise, anecdotal stories of William Sydney Porter, who wrote some twelve volumes of them under the name of 0. Henry, are apt to have a faintly dated air. The work of an amazingly prolific popular writer who had few literary pretensions and fewer literary ambitions, their in variable surprise endings have grown less surprising with the years, and the narrow ness of their range and the monotony of their mood have grown more conspicuous...
...finishing with handicaps in times: Won by A. J. Horne '40, 3m; second, J. D. Lightbody '40, 5m. 30 secs., third, W. H. Magill '40, 5m. 30 s, fourth, W. P. Tuttle '40, 3m; fifth, E. V. Clark '40, 3m; E. M. Thayer '37, 3m. 30 s; F. L. Porter '40, 3m; G. A. Hayward '40, 3m. 30 s; C. D. Stevens '40, 3m; R. Brayton '39, 1m; J. C. Wells '40, 3m. 30 s; R. F. Duncan 38, 3m. 30 s; H. L. Williston '40, 3m. 30 s; E. S. Childs, Jr. '40, 3m; H. O. Marcy '37, scratch...
...Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...
...girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands a cut. O'Hara, escaping from the general's junk, arrives in time to cut short these negotiations, but before...