Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast majority are coined by newspaper men, but to trace these monickers back to their original inventor would demand far more real labor and exacting research than the problem is worth. Alton Kimball ("Special Delivery", "Arlington Al", etc.) Marsters comes to the Stadium today. He is the hostile nicknamed star in the position which last Saturday was taken by C. K. ("Onward Christian") Cagle, the hula-hipped...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...
...Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...
Recipient Track Star...
Jeanne Eagles, the star of "Jealousy" failed to show the brilliance which characterized her screen work in "The Letter" She plays the part of a wife who is supporting herself and her husband on the money supplied her by a former lover. The inevitable occurs; her husband suspects that the former relationship is not entirely terminated, and in an insanely jealous mood murders the man whom he realizes is ruining the happiness of his home...