Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fearing a hostile demonstration, the police ordered reserves to the spot, and when the latter arrived those on the streets were ordered to move and quiet was soon restored...
...only bright spot of the competition, from a Cambridge standpoint, was the brilliant play of Captain Phillips Finally of the Harvard first-year men. This player scored a 74 in his foursome round...
...World that he was disloyal to the World (TIME, May 14). The New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard Newspaper) last week hired Columnist Broun because he is a liberal with a following. Said Mr. Broun: "I am glad to be on the Telegram . . . here at last I have a spot where I can lift my voice without being bothered by the fear that perhaps I am not precisely in tune with the rest of the choir. I never did like part singing...
Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...
...bench and the arguing gentlemen several thousand people shuffled and murmured. Suddenly one of the badge-wearers stepped forward and said to the little man: "All right, Mr. Jurado, you can drop it out two club's lengths." The little man smiled, got up, and placed at a spot indicated to him by the officials a golf ball which had been jammed against a leg of the bench. He played it with a quick stroke onto the green ahead of him. The crowd moved forward...