Word: splashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that football has gone out in a splash, Harvard collectively may pause for a moment to choose new gods to worship. Basketball, squash, winter track, fencing, wrestling, and boxing will command their followers, but the winter major sport, hockey, will attract more than any of its lesser rivals...
...Gold Diggers. Some months ago David Belasco jumped overboard from the bridge from which he directs legitimate theatrical enterprise and landed with a huge splash in the midst of the celluloid ocean. He presented?for a considerable consideration?the rights to several of his plays to certain movie impresarios. He stipulated that in their metamorphosis his traditions should be respected rather than those of the gelatine industry. For these things the population is indebted to Mr. Belasco. The Gold Diggers appears much as it appeared on the stage and evolves into that rarest of movie aves?a good, high comedy...
Hampered by lack of proper coaching and revealing clearly their want of practice and team-play, Princeton was unable to show a thing. Knox, star forward for the Jerseymen and leader in scoring to date, was well cared for by the University's checking defense, and failed to splash. The remainder of the line never really got under way and only twice was there any semblance of a passing offensive developing against Captain Bigelow's team...
...could only have been attained by it had the Advocate continued its war-time decline. But that was not to be. With the opening of the new College year Mother Advocate set her house in order and established herself more firmly than ever in our midst while the sudden splash of the Magazine's entrance into Harvard's literary pond was forgotten as its more conservative ripples appeared and quietly faded away...