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...rather serious casualties were the aftermath of a strenuous scrimmage held yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. G. C. Holbrook '30 sustained a leg injury which it is feared will keep him out for the season, while J. W. Rotter '30 will probably be kept on the side lines for a month with an injured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN RUNS WILD OVER SCRUBS 73-0 | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

...Stephen Heath, arrogant brave, self-sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting papas, but Author Forrest spoils most of his effects by belaboring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...inalienable rights of English men, but can be equally well applied to an American Sam or Hiram, Strained relations, vehement protestations, and misunderstandings follow; but somehow both deals are completed and the Englishman shows that he's "a sport" and the American that he isn't "a blooming rotter", for "heads on the coin" says that "they are to be married in England...

Author: By A. H. W. h., | Title: ANGLO-AMERICAN PACT PROSPERS HUGELY | 10/22/1924 | See Source »

...roses, one large display of fireworks for her birthday party, season tickets for her guests to baseball and the opera. It's a small town where they probably don't have opera, but the intent is good. The boss is determined to win her away from a rotter, and does, though the wisdom of the exchange is doubtful. Dustin Farnum is the boss with the golden heart and leather neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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