Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge have a rivalry of considerable longer standing than that between Harvard and Yale, a rivalry that draws athletes from the college competitions of each University and places them of late, under paid coaches. The British public has come to manifest some interest in the contests and the most spectacular matches are played where the best crowds can be drawn. Rugby football, moreover, as the most popular sport, has frequently accumulated surplus funds which have been distributed, as with football in America, to nourish less fortunate games. In each college, there is a central control for athletics, and attempts have...
...visit of Il Re had been a complete, spectacular success...
Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage. One rises to the spectacular part of Lady Godiva in a voluminous blond wig. The other gets a rich beau with "honorable intentions...
...official student delegation which is going to Russia this summer, in making the final arrangements with the Soviet students for the reception of the American group. He spent a month in Moscow and the provinces and was present at the Sun Yet Sen University in Moscow to witness the spectacular demonstration that followed the news of the fall of Shanghai...
Such was the spectacle which Charles C. Pyle, spectacular sport promoter, announced last week he would try to conduct early in 1928. He went as far as actually posting $25,000 for the winner, promised to collect cash for nine more prizes from cities along the route. The route, obviously, will be determined by the highest bids. The winner will have to average 32 miles a day, estimated Mr. Pyle. The race, said he, was inspired by an Arab messenger (unnamed), who ran 90 miles during the Riff uprising. Anyone of any color, amateur or professional, may enter Mr. Pyle...