Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller '27, former Crimson star on track and gridiron, and C. A. Pratt '28, a consistent scorer in weight events for University teams of the past three years, qualified for competition in the Eastern Olympic tryouts this Saturday at the Yankee Stadium in New York City by virture of their victories in the 100-metre dash and discus throw respectively. Each was wearing the unicorn...
...discus Guarnaccia took third to Pratt and Tony Plansky of the St. Alphonsus Association, the individual star of the meet, with a heave of 126 feet 8 inches...
...Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park in the U. S.* Swope Park...
Margaret Anglin, 52, as a lady of wit and leisure, indulged herself and the audience with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...
Hupmobile was William Crapo Durant's. He owns, reputedly, a large block of Hupmobile shares. He controls, too, Durant Motors (Durant and Star cars), Locomobile Co. of America, and more than a year ago he formed Consolidated Motors, Inc. in Delaware, and advertised in 48 newspapers of 29 cities that "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the Keystone of the great General Motors," he intended to use the new Star Six for his new company. Financial writers jeered at Mr. Durant as a stockjobber (TIME, April...