Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cowboy" Kutsch of Iowa was good coming on. Crofoot of Wisconsin was good going away. On a slippery field, web-footed Crofoot wrestled a Kutsch-as-Kutsch-can victory out of the mud. Score: Wisconsin, 20; Iowa...
...Blonde Sinner. A sleazy combination of musical comedy, mystery play, and Long Island society drama was injected last week and didn't take. The golden girl of the title falls into the web of a divorce suit as unidentified correspondent. Detectives and others interested assemble at her summer home. Moments of violent sleuthing are followed by moments in which the cast strive to act exclusive. Then there is a song and dance to confuse the spectator further. Of all of this the songs were best. The rest was indolent; a crude entertainment...
...interesting thing was discovered some time ago," Professor Brues continued, "when in one piece of amber was found a spider and in another the remains of an insect which had obviously been entangled in a spider's web and eaten, these animals of three to ten million years ago showing habits remarkably similar to those...
...Benet is a poet, hotly amorous of all words, ideas and images that appeal to the senses with clarity and elegance. He writes a rich historical tale in prose of the same genre as that which his austere sister-in-law, Elinor Wylie, put into her finespun web of intellectual silicon, The Venetian Glass Nephew...
...services of Captain Pease and giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech...