Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoons a week and two or three evenings. The Arena is the most difficult place, according to Mr. Morris, in which to announce. The acoustics are extremely bad and Mr. Morris, although he has announced at hockey games for over three years, has never been able to find one spot from which he can reach the entire audience...
Alfred E. Smith of New York. "After dinner, in the study with the men, Al Smith was at his best. He is a great actor; not a heel comedian like Willie Collier, who stands in one spot and gets his effect, but an all-over-the-lot acrobatic performer like Douglas Fairbanks. He gets out on the floor and acts out his scenes, puts his hands on the arms of your chair, shakes his fist at an imaginary enemy, and sinks into exhausted laughter at the end of his own story. His best ones were about prohibition...
...sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out. It is not a commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where the shaft should be sunk ought to be determined by geologists...
...back as the '60's, Mother Advocate's "at homes" had become a bright spot in the intellectual activity of the University. But more recently with the multitudinous wanderings of the magic pen, the custom fell into disuse. The success of the revival last year has led to plans for more meetings this year...
...head. In the second, he laid the Bull Man suddenly horizontal with a right jaw-punch, as they were backing out of a clinch. The third was a blood-bringing uppercut to the Bull Man's jaw. The last, a stiff left to the same spot...