Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...fifth time the date has come round which strikes a chord in all our hearts, kindles our hopes and humiliates everywhere our fainthearted enemies. With deeds, not words, we will celebrate...
...Park, nor on Otto H. Kahn's 57th St. site, but on Broadway in the shabby brick building that has housed it these 44 years, the Metropolitan Opera Company began last week a new season. The scene was familiar: the line from the box office curling halfway round the block; taxis snarling at one another, limousines haughtily shouldering their way through; crowded lobbies and scalpers asking $50 apiece for seats from last-minute bidders; Thomas J. Bull, silk-hatted, correct, taking tickets at the door he has tended for 37 years; General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hands in his pockets...
Seeded men in the tournament, the first round of which must be completed by tonight, include the following players out of a total of 64 entrants: Captain Pool. RUPERT. Oliver, and Thacher...
...Gene Tunney, the first fighter to attract attention to pugilism from the intelligentsia of the country, whoever they are, has seen the laurel turn to poison ivy. The very people who had been won by his admiration of Carlyle, who yelled "Awake, arise!" into their loudspeakers during the seventh round, have turned upon...