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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilligan '31, are the other leading contenders for the quarterback position. Crawford has been playing with the ineligibles for the past three years and it is a question with him even more than with Putnam as to whether he can regain the form which made him a star performer on his St. Mark's and Freshman elevens. Crawford is at present out with an injury, but he will doubtless see much service in the directing role before the season is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

HELEN KANE, Victor's latest one to eleven Old Howard star continues to carol her way girlishly into the 500,000 sold class. This by the way, at the royalty of four cents per each means about $20,000,00 to the young lady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

During the early part of next month the Bond Astronomical Club, a group of professional and amateur astronomers of Cambridge and vicinity, will hold the first of its monthly meetings at the Observatory. The American Association of Variable Star Observers will hold an all-day session at the Observatory for its seventeenth annual meeting, which will be followed by a dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY WILL CONDUCT FIVE OPEN NIGHTS AT COLLEGE OBSERVATORY | 9/28/1928 | See Source »

Four of the eight matches in the third round were upsets. Hunter beat "Bounding Basque" Borotra, 0-6, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2. Australian Jack Crawford eliminated John Van Ryn, Princeton star. Brugnon beat Dr. King who had slumped after his match with Hennessey, Disconcerted, Cochet captured three out of four listless sets from menacing Mercur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racketeers | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...place for the man who loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farce | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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