Word: rollering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Popular though his daughters may be, Dean Gauss became at once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...thoroughgoing man, Dr. Forbes Godfrey, Minister of Health for the Canadian Province of Ontario, last week forbade the further use of roller towels in all business and public lavatories; of powder puffs and sponges in all barbershops; of wooden bedsteads in public lodging houses of the Province. Reasons, well known to U. S. dwellers among whom such hygienic measures now seem almost antediluvian: germs teem on public towels, puffs and sponges; bedbugs nest in the joints of wooden bedsteads, in the crevices of their peeling veneer, in their "antique" wormholes...
Liberty's voice rattles as so many peas in an empty pod in this week's consideration of "Princeton On Roller Skates" The time-worn arguments that: "The faculties of colleges and universities are charged with developing boys into men. Men nowadays drive cars. Students should learn to handle cars. That is a vital part of the education of the modern man and woman," are used to little avail and nothing new or of interest is given. True, the editorial will appeal to the emotions of many people dissatisfied with the present situation at the universities and colleges where...
West 46th St. If "Oh Kay" wasn't in town this would be be best musical comedy there. But even "Oh Kay" hasn't got Betty Starbuck. She's a riot on roller skates. And you should see that chorus dance. It's the nearest thing to perfect in New York. Hart, Rogers, and Fields wrote the show; and that would be enough recommendation even if Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell weren...
Take It From Me (Reginald Denny). A young man is at great pains to bankrupt his large department store, in order to rid himself of a fiancée with designs upon his money. Hence, floorwalkers go roller-skating along the aisles, a "million dollar" fashion show is wedged into the film. He loses the undesirable fiancée, almost loses the store, wins the beautiful stenographer. But this, Take It From Me, is nothing to go out of the way to encounter...