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A very close contest is expected between the two teams. Harvard has been defeated twice this year. In the first game of the season the Crimson squad was downed by a fast New York Rugby Club team on a slippery field at New York and later they lost to a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUGBY FIFTEEN TO MEET YALE OUTFIT TOMORROW | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

Wrestling Bradford should have married Plentiful Tewke. Her father, Praise-God Tewke, told him so in the first act, set in front of a log-cabin church. But Plentiful (Contralto Gladys Swarthout) wanted to take a maiden's time and Wrestling was impatient. Pretty Marigold Sandys (Goeta Ljungberg) came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native No. 15 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Roosevelt & Son financed Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds and gained the undying enmity of Jay Gould for refusing to play his slippery games. In late years the firm has practically withdrawn from the underwriting field to specialize as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oldest First | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Now it is Buckler who has the opposition baffled. He has turned into a rip-snorting, tearing, slippery half-back, not content with his power on the run, but also must be able to pass at full speed. It is this last ability that has amazed the critics and should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

Last week Hindu Shankar was back in New York dancing with every one of his slippery muscles. Again he had with him Simkie. a Frenchwoman almost as sinuous as himself, and nine Hindu musicians who sit tailor-fashion on the floor, tap swiftly and intricately on odd-shaped drums, thrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Largest Tour | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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