Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Pictures, Inc., it would be natural to suppose that the old coat could now be no more than a shred of dishonored beauty. This is not accurate. Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula. A wisecrack when uttered by a mythical king is ten times funnier than the same wisecrack offered by a drugstore cowboy...
...Minister, kindly, astute William Smith Culbertson, instantly filed a stiff, uncompromising note of protest with the Rumanian Foreign Office and announced that unless positively asured of Mr. Keller's safety he would go himself to Oradia Mare. The Rumanian Government, impressed, dispatched a "special investigator" to watch over U.S. Citizen Keller...
...single social aspect of that race in '98 was a brief interlude while the riders descended from their wheels to watch Charlie Miller married at the track-side to Miss Genevieve Hansen of Chicago. He kissed his bride, remounted, rode to win. Elemental social manifestations . of this kind appealed to Charlie Miller as well as to the frowsy "bummers" infesting the upper galleries. In those days a frowsy bought one ticket and stayed all week; it was an inexpensive method of keeping warm; sociable and slightly alcoholic. Nowadays the new Madison Square Garden is cleared out early each morning...
Sport in Manhattan got on its bicycle last week and went in circles. 150,000 people paid cash to watch eleven two-man teams hurtle around an oval board track for money prizes in the six-day bicycle race...
...second forward line, just inserted into the fray, worked the puck down the rink, and W. D. Wetmore '30 took a pass from G. C. Holbrook '30 to skid the puck into the net again. For five minutes the Harvard marksmen lost the range, but as the timer's watch showed nine minutes and 27 seconds gone, Captain J. P. Chase '28 dashed away from the field to tally, and 16 seconds later the Crimson leader poked in another score from a mixup in front of the cage...