Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones, Yale football coach: "Just before the late Yale-Princeton game, incensed by criticisms of my coaching, I said: 'Those yellowbellies who crucified my brother and Frank Hinkey and Tom Shevlin are not going to crucify me. I was forced into this job. I am willing to be judged by other coaches . . . not by shyster lawyers, poor doctors, dentists, $18-a-week clerks who think they know more football than Roper, Dobie, myself and all the other coaches in the country. Injuries have crippled the team so that at times this season I have been lucky to have four...
Syncopating Sue (Corinne Griffith, Tom Moore). A beautiful, not profound blonde wants to be a real actress in Cut Price Glory. Everybody knows what a girl must put up with to succeed in the profession nowadays. These theatrical managers . . . However, Sue does become an actress, at the last minute. Eddie Murphy forsakes the boat bound for Europe, they fade out of sight floating together on Eddie's drum in the middle of the harbor. They easily fade out of memory, too, though they are not hard to look upon while aflash before...
Henry Fielding is as different from Samuel Richardson as "Tom Jones" is from "Pamela". Fielding was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Fielding a descendant of the Earl of Desmond. In this connection there is a rather interesting anecdote. The Earl of Desmond belonged to a branch of the Denbigh family which until lately was supposed to be related to the Hapsburgs. To this claim is to be attributed the famous passage in Gibagg's "Autobiography," which predicts for "Tom Jones" "that esquisite picture of human manners"--a diuturnity exceeding of the House of Austria...
Professor Maynadier, in English 29a will lecture on "Tom Jones" at 11 o'clock this morning in Sever...
Died. Thomas Mott Osborne, 67, pioneer in prison reform, onetime (1914-15 and 1916) warden of Sing Sing, newspaper editor;* at Auburn, N.Y., of heart disease. He dropped dead on the street. Later, 1,200 convicts of Auburn Prison marched solemnly past his bier. In 1913 he became "Tom Brown," entered Auburn Prison as a convict, A week later he came out with a philosophy of prison reform. His plan was to restore the prisoner's self-respect and help him maintain it. The key to self-respect, he believed, is labor...