Word: resting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...which was mere by-play to fill an idle hour, because the Tycoons all declined their invitations, except Henry Ford, who toyed with the idea as a public possibility longer than the rest...
...usual, squash attracted the most players, with 401 men competing. Basketball was second with 382; while the rest were as follows: winter track, 89; indoor baseball, 87; handball, 71; hockey, 62; swimming, 59; wrestling 48; and boxing, 23. No members of University or Freshman squads are included in these figures...
Harvard will be playing its first game since March 23 when it rode to triumph over Pennsylvania Military College to gain the intercollegiate title. Captain F. D. Sharp, polo mentor, has however kept his squad in shape by holding several practice sessions during the two weeks rest from competition...
...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...