Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love the girl, and the girl loves me, and yet I can't marry her because her parents want me to," cries Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...
...played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally, as is the case with the modern basketball hoop. This arrangement made it necessary for the ball to be put cleanly through the ring from a point close to the wall, and eliminated any possibility of a rebound from...
...might imagine, from this position of the ring, that few goals were scored. But the ball was never thrown. To be sent through the ring the ball had to be struck with the elbow or wrist, or bounced from...
...have no idea of the number of players in this game, but judging from the size of the court, it must have been considerable. A solemn sacrifice preceded each game, which had in itself some religious significance which is unknown. The puttime of the ball through the ring was regarded as a high honor...
Belated wayfarers along North Harvard Street have become timid these cold nights. They report that as they pass the Soldiers Field fence opposite the new Business School the have heard ghostly voices in the darkness, and the occasional ring of a bell. Investigation in the archives of Allston has found no record of a bell-ringing spectre that haunts the southern edge of the Lars Anderson Bridge...