Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much better than all their other opponents this year they have piled up the most extraordinary record of any major U. S. team: undefeated, untied and unscored on in nine games. Crowned champion of the Southern Conference. Duke celebrated and wondered if it would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, original of the dozen copies of the countrywide Bowl fashion, is still the No. 1 post-season game of the U. S. Contrary to popular impression, it is not a contest between the best Western and best Eastern team. It is a contest between the best team of the Pacific Coast Conference and any other team in the country that the Conference's choice chooses to invite. Last week when Southern California trounced the University of California at Los Angeles, 42-to-7, it finished its Conference season in a dead heat with...
Once a decade, by some freak, an Abie's Irish Rose or a Tobacco Road bobs up and refuses to sink for several seasons. Once a decade there may be an opening night, like that of What Price Glory? in 1924, when an audience stamps, shouts, weeps from excitement, and refuses to leave the theatre. Once a decade some young playwright who was yesterday unknown, not merely succeeds, but overnight arrives for good & all. Eugene O'Neill did it in the early twenties...
...says Odets, "until the age of 12." His father had sold papers, peddled salt; his mother had worked in a factory. During Clifford's childhood the family shuttled back & forth between Philadelphia-where he was born in 1906-and The Bronx, where they settled down. The father slowly rose in the world, ceased to be a worker, today is very well...
...loins," which means that Michael is home from the War. Michael goes to Heidelberg, grows lyric about a blonde maiden in the seat ahead: "Do I love Herta Hoik?" he asks himself. "I almost shudder at the crudeness of this word." But when she sends him a red rose: "Herta Hoik, I love you! I transform my little room into a royal palace...