Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another, and perhaps more common device, is to prepare two strings of beads with the father's full name. If twins or larger multiples are feared, extra strings are made up, with figures 1, 2, 3, 4, added. Then at the time of delivery, and before the umbilical cord is cut, one string is put around the mother's neck, the duplicate (or duplicates) around the baby's (or babies'). Such bead strings cannot slip over the baby's head...
...promising prospects for regular flank berths at the present time is W. W. Lord '28, baseball first baseman and for two years a member of the gridiron Seconds. From last year's Freshman team J. G. Douglas '30 and G. L. Lewis '30 have been retained as possible first string timber. F. A. Pickard '29 completes the list of Crimson jerseyed wingmen. Pickard has risen in the course of a single season from the class football ranks and is still very much of an unknown quantity...
...poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...told you I am his second string. I don't exactly know what that means, whether it is a compliment or not. If it means that I am not as good as he is, I object. If, as somebody has just told me, the second string starts in to function only when the first was broken down, I don't quite see where I come in. He did not show any signs of breaking down. In fact, I thought he was too long...
Footlights is another play about the show business. It holds up to ridicule the efforts of a shoe-string producer to turn out a musical comedy. There are dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...