Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier." Said Lady Olivier ruefully after her ejection: "None of the lords moved a muscle. It was what, if I had been on stage, I would describe as a dead audience...
...Rod Laver of Australia won the $25,000 U.S. Professional Tennis Championship by beating Spain's Andre Gimeno at the Longwood Cricket Club yesterday...
Joel Landau, who had placed second in his heat in the low hurdles Friday, came back to place third to Penn State's Rod Perry and Lou Knight of Manhattan. Landau's clocking of 23.2 Friday will not count as a new college record, since...
Captain-elect Pete Reider garnered the other Crimson third, as he came in behind Connecticut's Lew Steiglitz and Princeton's Rod Zwirner in the two-mile. Despite his two-week exam period lay-off, Reider's time of 9:17.8 also broke a college record, but will not be considered...
Pete Reider will have his hands full in both the mile and the two-mile, for Rod Zwirner of Princeton has beaten him in both. In the mile, there is an outside chance that Dartmouth's Doug Brew could scramble the picture, if he deides to double with the 880. Zwirner, Reider, and Brown's Ed Sullivan are the top three in the two-mile...