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...lineup a few seconds later, and the former Cambridge schoolboy flash added the second touchdown to the University total by a brilliant 30-yard run. The third red-shirt touchdown was the result of a blocked kick by Strong with Lindner falling on the ball behind the scrub goal line for a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SAVE MILLER FOR DARTMOUTH CLASH | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...Judge's Husband. After a long, successful tour, William Hodge is back on Broadway starring in his own play. A Connecticut woman Justice henpecks Mr. Hodge, makes him scrub, wash dishes. Hence, naturally, an unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...week of preliminary football practice, Coach Horween put the University squad through a lighter workout yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's session consisted mostly of kicking drill and dummy scrimmage with particular emphasis on breaking up forward passes. The regulars were able to cope with most of the ariel attacks, few scrub passes being completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STOP GENEVA PASS" IS CRIMSON SLOGAN | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

Putnam was substituted for Hamlen at quarterback when the ball was brought out to midfield and the quarterback of last year's Freshman outfit dodged the scrub line for several subsequent spins. At the 20-yard mark Putnam elected to try for a goal from the fold and Chauncey easily negotiated the try for the three points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED SHIRTS DOWN SECONDS, 23-0 | 9/30/1926 | See Source »

Santa Barbara knew him in its sunny winters. In the summers he repaired to an old fashioned cottage on the oceanward end of Long Island, at East Hampton, lingering there till autumn fogs moved through the scrub-oak and laurels and the wind blew cold over bright dunes. This year he went late to East Hampton, for burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Moran | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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