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...Knights of Columbus six had the advantage in speed, but the seconds' cooperation was able to break up most of the attacks before the Marquette wings reached an advantageous shooting position. Those who did get by found another strong opposition at the net, for Dole, repeatedly turned away a shower of hard drives. It was due to his alertness and the counter attacks launched by the forward line that prevented the superior team from scoring till the last half of the work...
...upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common...
...first period, which ended in a draw, was a battle to the death between Holmes and Wylde, playing at the cage for the B. A. A. The former, employing at various moments, feet, hands, legs, body and stick, was the butt of a perfect shower of shots, while Wylde, hammered almost as unceasingly by the University skaters, was bombarded, and driven out of position a dozen times, though succeeding in covering up on each occasion...
...School, has in William a part eminently suited to his form of artistry. His matter-of-fact yet expressive Americanisms reflect all the more to his credit for interpreting them because they are set in a heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive...
...area is at the top of a high hill, more or less isolated from the rest of the camp. Each battery is quartered in four separate buildings, a section to each building. The area is lighted by electricity and equipped with an up-to-date shower bath and toilet system...