Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty of the College of the City of New York, certain that Michael Bonney was the finest college janitor in the U. S., prepared a banquet for him. Anxious to make merry, they publicly gave him the "degree" of Past Master of Janitorial Science. They gave him a watch. President Frederick B. Robinson said: "We can't pretend to Michael Bonney. He knows us inside and out just as he knows the college inside...
...real test of the season for Dartmouth, and the first game on a strange field before a large crowd. Invariably this leads to a first period nervousness which should give Harvard a momentary advantage. Dartmouth's plays are always well executed and their backs are always a treat to watch. Ever dangerous is the Dartmouth quick play off tackle, and difficult to stop is the cut back end runs with four interferers, but most dangerous of all is the long forward pass. Every year, the Big Green team finds a back who can throw a ball 50 yards...
...means hang, draw and quarter Mr. Curtis and preserve his remains in the Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield as another souvenir of our progress toward true liberty and patriotism, under the guidance of the Watch and Ward zealots...
...First Spiritual Church of New York went Magician Howard Thurston. Magician Thurston had been quoted as saying that he could do anything with a watch-size instrument that mediums say they have done with supernatural power. One Arthur A. Ford was to contest the point in debate. Police had been called to prevent violent outbreaks...
They need not have come. Prof. Thurston, pleasant-spoken gentleman soon won over his audience, told how many a so-called medium had asked him for tricks to fool gullibles. "But," admitted Magician rhurston, "I was quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician...