Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of patronesses for the Senior Spread, to be held in Memorial Hall this year on Monday, June 15, was announced last night. The music for the dance, which will last from 8 o'clock until 2, will be furnished by Leo Reisman's 25-piece orchestra. Box groups will be announced later...
...When there is a 15-cent spread on the price of a commodity in one day, there is undoubtedly gambling going on. It has gotten so that a great many people believe that the Board of Trade is a nuisance from the way it has been running wild. The gambling should be eliminated...
...this gold-rush rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...surprise the American public, for headlines and rotogravures and little private tales have long since generalized the popular association of "dancing", "frenzy", and "prince". In spite of the rumor that the Prince's visit to America was just another publicity attempt of the Fox-Trot Association, the newspapers spread the reports of his fad for dancing through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu tribes, less foolhardy than...
...hour of the Phillips Brooks House Spread, which will last from 5.30 o'clock until 7.30 o'clock, will permit men to attend whether they are spreading elsewhere...