Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain R. D. Pinkerton '27, at back for the winners, displayed a brilliant brand of horsemanship and stick handling which was largely responsible for many of the University tallies. In the fourth chukker the University captain cut loose with the most spectacular shot of the game when he scored unassisted from far down the field. Alexander Shaw '28 at number one and R. B. Burnett '27, number three turned in brilliant exhibitions of polo and aided largely in the Crimson point gathering. For the losers J. Dudley Clark, father of the Crimson Freshman polo player, was the outstanding star...
...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...
...anyone were to paste grandfather's own moustache upon his crayon portrait in the parlor, the achievement would have tradition enough in the stage realism of a century ago, when real water-falls might be seen gushing from a hole in a canvas drop during the course of a spectacular and dripping melodrama. In many details of illusion the twentieth century harks back to the resources of the now unpopular nineteenth, no phase of which has received more liberal and often ill-informed contempt from professors and students of the drama than its stage. The years from Sheridan to Robertson...
...famous intercollegiate trophy will depend on the team's success at Rye. Alexander White, '28, veteran of last year's champion four, will not be able to play in the first game against Princeton, but he is expected to be eligible after the opening contest, and his spectacular playing last year will make Harvard a favorite to repeat if the first obstacle is successfully overcome...
Mind reading, while less spectacular, is perhaps the most interesting feature. Simply by touching the hand of any member of the audience the fakir reads and obeys his silent command for any convenient task he can complete within the theatre. He will find, for example, a certain word in a certain book designated mentally by the subject. Thus far Rahman Bey has not been invited to any poker games...