Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Dartmouth's second touch-down, everyone realized that only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps...
...Germany this summer we discovered a new kind of phonograph record called "Spiel mil." These records of the best chamber music are prepared by good musicians with one part missing on the phonograph. The sheet music for the missing part is supplied with the record. The student by this method can play the record, hear first the sounding of a, then comes the beating of time for one measure, and, after a measure of silence, the music begins, making it possible for the student to join in with his own instrument...
...some of the best music on Eastern gridirons, students have so far failed to contribute anything more negotiable than applause. Few forget the embarrassing moment two falls ago when a hat was passed around the stadium to send the group to Princeton. Few realize the length of the expense sheet of a big band, running from trips and uniforms to polish and pressing, even though Harvard is lucky that the Puritan tradition forbids bearskin shakos and braid. Failure to appreciate these costs is principally to blame for the lack of support from the students and not a lack of pride...
Product of Chicago's school of fireball journalism, Author Hecht covered Latin uprisings, in Berlin followed the Spartacists' uprising against the Ebert Government, ran the Chicago Literary Times, a bohemian and radical sheet. He and Charles MacArthur, another Chicago newspaper bravo, wrote The Front Page in 1928 and thereby hit professional pay dirt. During a fling with MacArthur in film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium...
Unfortunately he had a little difficulty understanding History 1's mentor, Professor Merriman. For the Yardling appeared at the Phillips Brooks House loan library and gave the attendant a sheet of paper, on which, legibly enough, was inscribed: "Silipus at Bernstein Hall...