Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oppose the Crimson in its last home game of the current season. Simultaneously a crippled Yale team will tackle the roaring Princeton Tiger in its Jungletown den, and these two contests will occupy a large part of the attention of the football world; for they will shed the final ray of light on next week's classic in the Yale Bowl...
...which are merely raw. Its plot concerns a collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held Jr. and whose right stocking is deployed in wrinkles...
...establish the (indubitably) important part House played, and also to emphasize House's deep admiration for Wilson's genius, even after their close friendship had waned. Above all, the papers are invaluable as historical source material, ranking with Ambassador Page's Letters, and the Wilson papers Ray Stannard Baker is editing. Selected, arranged, and linked by Professor Seymour's lucid comment, the Intimate Papers are intensely interesting, indispensable to any adequate understanding of War burdens, post-War intrigues...
...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
Until El Ouati and Ray should start their U. S. tour, it was necessary for Promoter Pickens to find stunts that should keep El Ouati in the public eye. The Algerian was led to various Manhattan newspaper offices ; reporters and photographers were invited to visit him so frequently that El Ouati, sick of removing his clothes to pose for pictures, murmured "que j'suis . . . fatigue...