Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullivan, who was official flag-raiser at Soldiers Field up to his retirement last June, started work for the HAA in 1900. He hasn't missed a Harvard-Yale game, since 1910, and he unhesitatingly picks the Crimson as a winner in this year's affair...
...traditional curtain-raiser began the evening's activities. It is really just a short sketch expanded into a half-hour with music, a kind of parody of coincidence-filled drama, and a wonderful curtain line. Sir Arthur Sullivan was the composer, but the libretto was written by two gentlemen named Morton and Burnand. A few years later Sullivan entered into a much more successful partnership...
...Curtain-raiser for the regatta, which is run off on the Weeks Bridge-Metropolitan Beach course, will be the wherry race. Direct descendants of Noah's Ark, the homely, hardy dugouts usually offer the most unpredictable and interesting contest...
Harvey Love's yearlings will be seeking to gain some solace from their third place finish behind M.I.T. and Cornell in their curtain raiser last week. Main reason for the squad's poor showing was the sudden illness of the number 6 man, "Swannie" Swanson midway through the course...
...Trial by Jury," which came as a curtain-raiser, is a tidy little musical farce about a breach-of-promise trial. The company used what actors they had left over from the excellent cast of "The Pirates," and produced it with a certain competent lightness. Enough stage business was crammed into the operetta's twenty-five minutes to fill a three-hour play, but somehow nothing seemed forced. Richard Watson as the jovial Judge and Gwyneth Cullimore as the charming but money-conscious Plaintiff helped to make the evening joyous for both the arrogant Savoyard and the man who merely...