Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...untested freshman hockey team will play the curtain raiser of a 17-game season today when it faces Melrose High in the Boston Arena. From all appearances, Coach Stan Priddy seems to have a well-balanced group with plenty of depth at his disposal this winter...
...undergraduates have lost the traditional curtain-raiser only once, in 1938, and there is not much chance of it happening again this year. The return to the fold of Bill Graham, junior breaststroker, has greatly bolstered the team's strength, particularly in the medley relay...
...curtain-raiser, the freshmen take on the Tufts yearlings. The Yardlings will also be making their debut under a new coach, Floyd Wilson. Probable varsity lineups: HARVARD TUFTS Smith F Kolankiewicz Rockwell F Perry Prior C Goodwin Crosby G Mullaney Hickey G Sokelin
...brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the beaux arts, and bullied husbands of ripening patronesses who answered muster at the opening offering of the newly-formed Boston Dance Society felt slightly confused, like this reviewer, but on the whole pleased by this curtain raiser of the New Boston Dance Society...
Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...