Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shamefully incidental scrap in which the evangelical church is engaged," said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (Modernist) last week. On the contrary, Rollin Lynde Hartt (Modernist) after a trip from coast to coast, reports that the row has just begun, that Fundamentalists everywhere are planning a real fight to kill Modernism...
...pound crews have been organized better this year than ever before. A large number of light weight men have been given an opportunity to row and under the coaching of Fred Newell, this department has developed to a great extent...
...much could not be said of the galleries, crowded with "official ladies." There was Mrs. Coolidge in henna-colored dress and hat, with a coat of cocoa-colored velour, trimmed with fur. In another part was Mrs. Wood-row Wilson, gowned in black, with orchids at her waist. There were wives of seven or eight members of the Cabinet; also Miss Ailsa Mellon, representing her father. There was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Republican Floor Leader...
...hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance of Rum Row...
...question of ticket allotment seems almost remote and petty. It is something of a compliment to the Athletic Association that it should be so, for it was certainly not merely the unpleasant day that made the spectator at least tolerably well satisfied even with his seat in the front row of the wooden stands. When all is said and done the fact remains that more wisdom and fairness was shown in this year's allotment than had ever been possible before; and, as a result, there was noticeably less criticism...