Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" at the Copley aids and abets Holbrook Blinn's current dramatic heresy. Like "The Play's the Thing", it has a cast of six or seven men and one woman, in open defiance of all the best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what...
...University team has played seven games; of these five have been won, one has been lost, and one tied. Adding up all the tallies made by Harvard during the season, one obtains the result of 32 goals, making an average of four to five goals a game. The sum total of the opponents' scores amounts to 12 goals, or an average of less than two tallies for each game...
...garlic, paw visitors' palms for considerations of $1 to $3 each. If a client wants a really big question answered, he is sometimes instructed to press a $1 bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these as they may, palmistry is practiced seriously by many an honest girl...
Devereux Milburn, having played polo seven times for U. S. against Great Britain, will play no more. Last week Mr. Milburn, potent back, potent captain, refused to report retirement but indicated that the U. S. four will ride against the English team without him in 1930. Observers recalled remarks of J. Watson Webb, teammate who aided Milburn to beat Britain, that he was done with international polo. Observers noted that Malcolm Stevenson, No. 3 for U. S., is only a few years younger than veteran Milburn (47) and doubted that he can equal the attacks of younger players...
Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...