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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majestic--"The Big Parade", a motion picture with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, at 8.15: Less bitter than "What Price Glory" and every bit as real. It is a splendid thing that these two pictures can reach every small town in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 1/30/1926 | See Source »

...chief thing which startled me on arriving back in Cambridge," said Dean Pound to a CRIMSON reporter, "was that my book the "Spirit of Common Law" had been translated into Japanese, and two copies had been sent to me. I have spent quite some time trying to decipher my name, and have at last succeeded." He showed a copy of the new translation with its hieroglyphic heading, and said that he had failed to peruse it further...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN POUND RETURNS FROM ARBITER'S JOB | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

...inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic with old John the Orangeman. But John, whene'er the thing was hinted at, swore roundly in his well known way, "Ter Hell wid Yale!"--disclaiming thus his offspring. Thus Lampy's disinheritance has been advanced by some as cause sufficient for his marked dislike of County Corkers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S BIRTHDAY CONFESSIONS | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...type of meeting will be a good thing for the creation of interest and enthusiasm in the coming season," said Coach Mitchell yesterday in com- meeting on the formal opening of the season, "and the inspiration which will be furnished by the presence of former players should prove a decided benefit. The reason I am going to call the Freshmen out first is so that I will be able to devote my whole time to them for the first week or two and find out to a certain extent the kind of material which I will have to work with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEAGUE FLAVOR TO BASEBALL OPENING | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...Playing in a college part is the next best thing to being a student again," commented the youthful playwright and actor. "Critics have become tired of college plays, and are distinctly hostile to each new one. This is due of course to the fact that many of them have been written by men who never attended college at all or so long ago as to have fallen completely out of touch with the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nugent and McNutt, of "Poor Nut" Fame, Discuss College and the Stage and the Poor Nuts Often Found in Both | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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