Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance in the Princeton game last year, when, after the Harvard supporters had listened patiently to songs for old Nassau, my boys, and were aching for a chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular...
...passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water-tube boiler system, weighing 314 tons, the King George V (biggest locomotive in the British Empire), sent down from Canada for the show...
...tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest, the cognomen, "Miss Maryland," was trundled along upon a float. Governor of Maryland Albert C. Ritchie officiated at the opening of the show. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, too, was present...
Arbiter. Prospective members of the Exchange must present innumerable personal & business & bank references. They must sign the constitution & by-laws of the Exchange. In this document they promise to show their books to the Committee on Business Conduct at regular intervals, and also at any other times. The Exchange becomes the absolute arbiter of their business life. According to its bylaws, it can even hold the money it receives from the sale of the seat of an expelled member and pay it on claims of other members...
Since its arrival at the East Boston Airport last Tuesday, the machine, a biplane, has been in the Aero Show in the Mechanics Building, where repairs to the motor during show hours attracted especial attention...