Word: timers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Epicurean delights during the football season are usually rather rare. Thrills of the grandstand, the bands, the crowds, to the old-timer begin to lose their glamour after a succession of years. But occasionally the powers that be introduce a spectacle that causes the 'ardents', and who isn't, to sigh contentedly much the same way that the lover of the inner linings of his constitution sighs for his special cheese or fish paste...
...Edison has never flown but "might try it sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
...member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton...
Score--West Point 15, Harvard 7 1-2. Goals--Cooke 6, Wing 3, Brandt 3, Haskell 3, Cusack 3, Jenkins 3, Rodgers 2, Beebe. Fouls--Luton 2, Cooke. Time--Six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--Captain Henry Westphalinger. Timer and scorer--J. Wilkie...
Score Freebooters 10 1 2, Harvard 5 1-2. Goals Hopewell 3, Westphalinger 3, Sharp 3, Nicholas 8 Fouls Sharp, Nicholas. Time Six 5-minute chukkers Referee Loef. Timer--H Pond...