Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game was on Holmes Field, and perched up on the top row of the bleachers were Frederick Winsor '93, and Maynard Ladd '94, to write up the game. But new to connect Winsor and Ladd with Mac and Ed? Again Hunt, overcomer of obstacles, came through with one of his schemes. He corralled a lot of boys with bicycles, and as fast as Winsor and Ladd would get a bunch of copy written, they would wrap it around a stone and drop it over the bleachers to one of the young bicyclists waiting below, and away it would go across...
Apparently, the cry of wolf has been raised too often, however. Europe is more intent upon carrying out the terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...longer need the ladies of the Great White Way look wistfully at departing friends who have gained on the college world to the extent of one ticket, Row XX, Seat 13, and are taking the sleeper for a greensward far away. Football has come to Broadway! Not the Rugby of the theatre rush, but the real thing, honest to gridiron football. For A. L. Erlanger presents "The Kick Off", a football comedy by Grantland Rice and Frank Craven. These veterans of many a long tussle with publicity enter Broadway with their new brain child, a football...
Coach Stevens' crews row as follows...
...little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...