Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduates: Faude, g., Meyer, r.f.b., Whitelaw, l.f.b., Glazier, r.h.b., Silver, c.h.b., Henry, l.h.b., Pusey, o.r., Broadbent, f.r., Vogel, c., Freeman, i.l., Dorman, Lee, o.l. Harvard Varsity: England, g., Wemple, Gummere, r.f.b., Parker, Wemple, l.f.b., Waters, Ackerman, Whitney, r.h.b., Robinson, o.h.b., Eaton, l.h.b., Schumacker, o.r., Clos, i.r., Grover, c., Stork, Whitney, i.l., Robbins...
Four political manipulators who can nominate a President tell a dour statesman that he lost the nomination and his one chance for national sex appeal when Claudette Colbert refused to marry him. But when they see a medicine show in which a silver-tongued mountebank and his assistant (Jimmy Durante) are selling their medical compound, they see the natural resemblance between the showman (Actor Cohan) and the Statesman (Actor Cohan). They hatch a plan to elect the statesman president on the show-window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture...
...were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side, he harmonized in Bowery saloons for handouts, sang in Brooklyn beer halls, church and lodge benefits, finally in vaudeville and the Silver Slipper nightclub with his partners Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton. Connoisseurs of loony comedy have long cherished his phonograph records, "So I Ups To Him," and "I Can Do Widout Broadway But Can Broadway Do Widout...
Last year the club won, for the third consecutive time, the Loening Trophy, given annually to the most successful college flying club in America. A silver cup and a cash award of $250 constituted the prize. It was presented to members of the club in August at a dinner of the National Aeronautical Association in Washington, D. C. Competitors over whom the Harvard Flying Club was adjudged superior included groups from Yale, Michigan University, William and Mary College, and New York University...
...smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating, Gar Wood, defender of the Harmsworth Trophy, smiled contentedly. He had kept a promise to his country and himself...