Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 23--Coach Ducky Pond sent a confident band of Eli gridmen through an impressive passing drill here this afternoon. Fred Burr and Ted Harrison were landing their tosses into the arms of receiver after receiver, and Yale hopes of springing an upset on favored Harvard rose...
Scarcely a year out of jail, he was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson for contempt of court. Four months later, the Federal Government rose from an examination of his riches and with a straight face made the statement that Capone had illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment...
...audience was quite willing to believe it. When at long last the curtain rose on Dali's brand-new setting for the Venusberg Bacchanale scene from Wagner's Tannhäuser they saw what they had come for. At the back of the stage, before a punctured mountain on a windswept plain, an ossified swan spread 15-ft. wings. In and out of its ruptured, bony breast the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's ballerinas climbed like the maggoty stuffing of a decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled...
...Portland, Ore., Howard Jones's unbeaten Southern California powerhouse, strongest he has turned out in years, rumbled over hitherto unbeaten Oregon State, 19-to-7. Thereby practically clinching the Pacific Coast Conference championship, Southern California began to ponder whom it would invite to the Rose Bowl...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...