Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries along Quincy Street, the upper story having a toplight. The most important gallery on the main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...
...Rough House Rosie (Clara Bow) is moderately diverting nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...
Ithaca, N. Y., May 27, 1927-Rough water on Lake Cayuga kept the Harvard University and second crews from rowing over the course here today in preparation for their races with Cornell tomorrow afternoon. A north wind blew down the two-mile stretch. If the wind continues, the races will be rowed on the abbreviated inlet course, where the Crimson and Big Red eights practiced today...
...Pocock, the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past. If Lake Cayuga is smooth tomorrow at the time of the Cornell race, the University may row the new Lutz boat, but if the water is at all rough the crew will row the shell it is used...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...