Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handsome, young, fearless, scornful, "Flaming Milka" marched to one mine after another in the southern Colorado district, day after day adding to her following. "Don't work, men!" she cried. "A strike is on. Stand by your comrades." Pointing at mine-guards with fixed bayonets, she would cry: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
Football is done again. Save for a scattering of Southern and Pacific conflicts, Thanksgiving and the succeeding Saturday sufficed to settle scores...
...Chicago the West and the Far West entertained the largest crowd in football history, 114,000.* Southern California and Notre Dame, considered by some the best in their sectors, struggled savagely on a slippery field. Twice the far westerners missed forward passes that seemed certain touchdowns; once the far westerners failed to kick the goal from touchdown. Notre Dame...
Except for Colonel McCranie, in which part Rufus Hill is everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
Hockey is to Canada what baseball is to the U. S., what bridge is to a bored woman, what boule* is to southern France, what slogans are to cigarets. Two years ago Tex Rickard decided that hockey should also be made necessary to Manhattan. He included an ice manufactury in his vast Madison Square Garden and imported hockey in life-size lots from Canada...