Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the talk the entire squad, dressed in sweat-clothes, went through a light workout on the field taking things easier than usual. The backs, ends, centers, and linemen all reported to their respective coaches for assignment instructions. A short-signal drill concluded the workout...
...highly pleased at the success of the project. He says that Harvard alumni generally, and especially those in Texas, will enthusiastically approve of this game. "What we particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters, and we indulge the hope that this football game will...
...Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in France. Burly, laconic as his prose, he is fond of bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...
...Harvard touchdown came as the result of a short run by Wells, left halfback, who then added the extra point by tossing a forward to Barton, Freshman end. Clark, at right halfback, scored for Exeter, and Spain kicked the goal for the extra point. Adams and Wells starred for the Freshmen...
...promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again...