Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Haven Evening Register, Boston Sunday Advertiser, Peoria (Ill.) Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Cleveland Press, Topeka (Kans.) Daily State Journal, New York Evening Journal, Los Angeles Examiner, and Newark (N. J.) Evening News...
...King," which a lot of the children mistook for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" because the tune was the same, and up stepped William Meades Newton of Liverpool, England, to tell about the benefits of the British Empire. Nearly every one recognized the next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece on "The Constitution" which had won him the national championship last June. It included the sentences: "The pages of this sacred document are fast crumbling away. . . .Baptized...
...Bucky" is the standard sobriquet for a star fullback; other good names for a back are "Red," "Champ," "Charlie." With all four of these gentlemen, listed as Dahlman, Hearndon, Chevigney, and Riley, in the field, Notre Dame's able team pounded past Penn State, 28 to 0. Wilson and Harding made a cabinet of their own in the Army backfield and kept tossing the portfolio back and forth until, with the support of the best line in the East, they beat their heavy Syracuse visitors...
...Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail-till he is assured of the heroine's true love. Then the mud begins to fly. The smile of Louise Mason (Esther Ralston) is good for hundreds of yards...
...contest of major importance. Putnam and French are brilliant Sophomores whose big test comes today. Whoever replaces Daley at guard, whether it be Simonds, Goodwin, or Stewart--the chances favor Simonds--will be in his first big game. Gamache, like Dooley, played two years ago, but unlike the Indian star, did not emerge from their contest covered with glory. Captain Coady was not in the starting lineup a year...