Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novelty acts or instruments of unusual variety will be considered and judged by the Specialty Division. Clog dancing, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, xylophone playing, the Hawaiian guitar, accordian and the saw come under the Specialty Acts...
...last week. But Dr. Stresemann continues at the Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
...last week, thought that going home had proved too much for one young man. As the tender passed the buoy by the Hog Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member, had plunged to the rescue. A one-time (class of 1917) Princeton footballer, saturnine...
Died. Brigadier General John McCausland, 90, Confederate army officer who never surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached...
Thacher defeated Bohlen 3 to 2 after a gruelling session on the court. He took the first game after a sew saw battle with an 18-15 count. Bohlen turned the tables in the next game by taking the University court man into camp by a 15-16 score. Thacher took the third game, but dropped the fourth by the same count. In the fifth round he steadied down to take the game and match. The team suffered its first setback of the afternoon when Gammell swept Stewart to defeat. Oliver made up for this by defeating Gardner easily...