Word: tights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...first touch football game of the season held yesterday between the Trident Club and the Sigma Alpha Mu squad resulted in a 3-0 victory for the Tridents. The score, which for touch football indicates an unusually tight game, was made by W. L. Taylor '30 on a placement kick. The next game on the intramural touch football schedule will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock when the Staplers Club and Kappa Sigma fraternity clash...
Lest President Coolidge's statement be made to seem a pet of political temperament, Impresario Butler closed his lips tight, pocketed his incompleted jottings, left the Northwest. But before going to Canada for a vacation, he did say that Calvin Coolidge was not to be thought of as definitely unavailable for the Prosperities of 1928. During Mr. Butler's vacation, President Coolidge repeatedly if silently insisted on his unavailability, finishing up last week with the almost crabbed words: "It is final." Mr. Butler, heading for Washington last week, obviously had a lot of new plans to make...
...central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...
...most assistance in "interpreting the events of the day." In the same year its strong editorials drew for it the quarterback position on an all-American newspaper team assembled by the journalistic department of the University of Illinois. It has also won the honor of having more tightlipped, tight-mouthed New Englanders scan it crossly, not over three-minute eggs, but after breakfast on the porch. Dutifully read by New England-bred Calvin Coolidge, it has more recently won the honor of being termed "the President's Bible...