Word: take-off
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Along the way are scattered a few pretty songs which would be prettier if the lyrics were more singable, one clever take-off on the modern physician whose only cure is to operate, several excellent choruses with a score of splendidly gowned girls to sing them, one thrilling Italian dance, and one ear-splitting fantasia on a large set of bells. In sum, a clean, pretty performance, which, while it does not escape the structural perils of musical comedy, has no other great blemishes...
...representing any other college or university, which is, or within four years prior thereto has been, a member of this association." The rules of the Amateur Athletic Union governing relay races were accepted almost in their entirety. Contestants in the broad jump were voted an unlimited run, but the take-off must be from behind the scratch line, which was defined as the outer edge of a joist eight inches wide, set firmly in and on the same level with the ground. A new paragraph was added to article 23 of the Law of Athletics, as follows: "A competitor knocking...
...unfortunate; but it is fair to say that the Pudding theatricals have as a rule contained quite as much comedy as the average modern comic opera. This year's performance would fall distinctly below even this level of humor were it not for G. P. Gardner's remarkable take-off of a noted dancer's "dance of the five senses." This travesty is so funny and so well done that it lends to the whole performance an appearance of being good comedy. Except for this dance the only features of the theatricals which can be called amusing...
...Yale, E. T. Cook of Cornell, J. F. Pickles of Pennsylvania, and C. Vezin, Jr., of Princeton. If the weather is good today, this record will undoubtedly be beaten again. The distances in the broad jump were surprisingly poor, but this may be partially accounted for by the heavy take-off. Considerable change in the positions as they stand at present will probably take place this afternoon. The hammer-throw is another event in which improvement is looked for today. Talbott and Horr are left to fight it out for first as Cooney unexpectedly failed to qualify...
...preliminary practice Coach Randall drilled the men in dribbling, long and short tries for goals, and trick formation from the take-off. Much attention was devoted to the one-bounce play, which has been made possible this year under the new rules...