Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lyles is a short, vanilla-colored gentleman whose serious cast of countenance belies his reputation as one of the most irresistible Negro stage comedians who ever slapped a softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first...
...signal for the uprising was the mutiny of 800 troops in Mexico City, which was speedily put down. More serious revolts took place in Vera Cruz, Coahuila, Morelos, spreading eventually to the state of Chihuahua, San Luis Potsi, Durango. Government troops were successful, however, in overpowering the rebels at several important points and forcing them to take refuge in the mountains...
...Holy Cross in the Stadium next Saturday. A. E. French '29, who started last Saturday's game at halfback, but who retired in the first quarter after receiving a hard blow in the side, was reported as improving rapidly. It was feared at first that his injury might be serious, but Dr. T. K. Richards '15, after a careful examination, declared that the speedy Junior will be fit in two days' time. G. K. Brown '28, who was hit on the head in the Purdue battle, was pronounced fit for work. J. L. Combs ocC., who has been out with...
...appearance of the October number of Poland, a monthly magazine published in the U. S. and devoted to serious discussions of the condition of Poland, sent a thrill of ill-concealed horror through stalwart, patriotic Poles resident...
...first the large cost of transportation was considered a serious obstacle to the appearance in the Stadium of the famous ten-foot drum and its attendants. A contribution from the H. A. A., and from Purdue Alumni, and a collection taken up in the college was supplemented by an offer from. Roxy, New York theatrical producer, for a one-night engagement at his theatre, insuring the needed funds...