Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hustled him to luncheon at the Manhattan Advertising Club. He gave them a tapestry for their club. Later he presented many a friend with a slim gilt-covered volume that he had written. It contained "epigrams" like the ones Charles Archbold of the National Refining Co. writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There is no fool like...
...Interclass Tournament each class has played three matches in which the Juniors have maintained the only clean slate. The Sophomores have won two and lost one, and the Seniors have taken one and dropped two. The first year men have three, losses chalked against them...
...Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring the slate with curses. Tessa goes with Dodd to a flyblown Brussels hostelry, where her weak heart-valve gives way as she struggles to open a window. She is free; the others live...
Playing their second matches of the season on Saturday the University squash teams in classes A and B swept through with a clean slate. The Freshman team suffered a 1-4 defeat at the hands of the Union Boat Club...
...hard-fought game, the Junior class eleven defeated the Sophomores by a score of 6 to 0 in Soldiers Field yesterday. The victory keeps clean the 1928 slate, and leaves the team at the top of the standing, with two triumphs and no defeats...