Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producers of "The Bat", the spectacular New York success, have received offers for the foreign rights of the play from no less than nine nations,--England, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Cuba, Australia and South Africa...
...kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...
...pole-vault was perhaps the most spectacular event of the evening. A special board runway was constructed, with a dirt catch for the pole, and a dirt landing pit. In view of the difficulties attendant on staging this event indoors, the hazy atmosphere and the lack of a proper background against which to view the bar, topping the 12-foot mark reached by Harwood and Gardner was a very creditable performance. There was little to choose between the style of the two men as they cleared the bar. On the toss to settle the tie, Gardner won and was awarded...
...last week the Tigers led throughout till Carson tied the score in the final period, making overtime necessary. Knox for the Nassau line bounced the puck into the Elicage a moment or two after the extrasession face-off, following it up two minutes later with another goal from a spectacular dash down the rink...
Acting Captain Fitts, although not up to his usual standard, was the strongest man in the University line-up. Several of his dashes and defensive plays were spectacular. Feiring was effective in blocking, and Chase, in the second period, forced his opponents to shoot frequently from mid-floor. Because of ineffectiveness Miller and Pallo were taken out at the end of the first period, but the latter showed, in the second, that he could still be relied upon. Although the M. A. C. men were tall and rangy, he managed often to get around and from under them with...