Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrified at first, Burleigh gets to like his new job, does not realize that his string of one-round victories has been framed. Besides, he has acquired Mazie, a ponderous St. Bernard in a pink bow whose pupil-less eyes look out with uncanny wistfulness across the footlights. When reporters ask him if he is any kin to John L. Sullivan, Burleigh asks "Is he a fighter, too?" He is certain, however, that the championship is "in the bag." This piece of impudence so enrages Speed that, although he has about decided to foreswear the match as a favor...
...recently taken to straight comedy. She has been touring in Every Thursday, does herself an injustice by bringing this unworthy comedy to Broadway. Queenie Smith's husband, Robert Garland, theatre critic for the World-Telegram, refrained from reviewing his wife's play. In his stead, second-string Critic William Boehnel praised the actress, deplored her vehicle...
Playing at 3.30 o'clock, the Freshman tennis team will try to prove to M.I.T. that they have completely recovered from the 6-3 drubbing which Andover dealt them Wednesday. Jimmy Fuld, number one man, will be striving once again to build up a string of triumphs which will compare with the one snapped so unexpectedly by Foreman of Andover last Wednesday...
Blanking Brown 9-0, for its second shut-out victory in a row, the Varsity tennis team ran its string of consecutive triumphs up to five straight at Providence yesterday. Although the Crimson Players were minus the services of Sandy Davenport '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, filling in at number one in his place, handled the situation admirably by defeating the Bruin's star, Chase, in a long match...
...Colonel Bradley bought his first race horse, Friar John. His second, Bad News, which won 54 times out of 185 starts, was the first of his string of "B" horses...