Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must know I admired him when I would sing for him 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Ye gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
...Mackenzie is a newspaper man. His stories smack of the copy desk, and have all the snap of a star reporter. But their present appearance in book form makes possible, in addition, a more finished and artistic treatment than is allowed by the exigencies of a first edition. There is included a wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...
Reports were current yesterday that Bruce Caldwell, Yale backfield star, is ineligible to represent the Blue on the gridiron. A Providence newspaper declared that Caldwell played in two games on the Brown Freshman team in 1923, which, according to the eligibility rules in force at Yale, would bar him from competition...
Dudley Bell '28, star center who was forced to leave the contest with Pennsylvania in the first quarter, will be in shape in a day of two, it was announced. J. P. Crosby '28, whose leg injury was at first feared serious, may need a little rest, but the Brown game will find him ready for action. A. E. French '29 played quarterback for the greater part of the game, and suffered a severe battering, but Dr. Richards declared that the Junior would feel no ill effects from his ordeal...