Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scale than the three preceding ones. It was held on June 2 and received a great deal of publicity because of the fact that the Class of 1922 engaged two prominent orchestras to play. Bert Lowe from Boston and Market from New York were on hand with their jazzy post-war syncopators and furnished the inspiration. The interdormitory singing contest again featured the evening, but the dance craze had begun and no longer was the Jubilee primarily for relatives and music-lovers...
...veterans. John Prior '29 has thus far won the first call to hold down first base, while J. P. Chase '28 is stationed at the second sack. R. C. Sullivan '28 and Captain H. W. Burns '28 have been alternating at shortstop, although the latter will resume his regular post in center field as soon as the squad gets outside the cage, G. E. Donaghy '29, another veteran, has been assigned to third base...
Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...
...living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley...
...That Mr. Loree would within seven or ten days accept a post as chairman of the board of directors for the Van Swer-ingen's system...