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...carboys, the touch football squad of the "The Dartmouth", generally and affectionately termed by those in the "know" as the "Short Green" for obvious reasons, rode into town last night for the first of their long series of annual games with the CRIMSON. The carboys, according to Mr. Webster, are vessels commonly used to contain corrosive liquids, usually sulfuric acid. Managers commonly contain almost anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN AND CRIMSON SCRIBES TO MEET IN TOUCH FOOTBALL | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...Brat," as a name for a child, is openly and admittedly insulting in the present day. Webster terms it "now usually contemptuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Shannons of Broadway. Not so many seasons ago James Gleason and his wife, Lucille Webster, were unknown except to stock and vaudeville audiences. Then one night Mr. Gleason appeared in a piece of his own co-authorship called Is Zat So? From that day to this his name has been among the notables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gleason was swaggering, noisy and caustic, through Merton of the Movies and The Butter and Egg Man. Now the family (with the exception of a sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...raced the Navy; Marine Corps raced Army; commercial planes of various specifications raced one another; private planes raced; stunt flyers gyrated; parachute jumpers floated. No astonishing speeds were made. Twenty thousand Spokaners cheered and shivered to see the ships go by. At the Lido, Venice, Plight Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster, one of the British entrants for .the Schneider cup, broke all speed records with an average of 281.488 miles an hour. The best previous record, 246.496 miles an hour, was established last year by Major Mario de Bernardi, of the Italian air force, who wrested the cup from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Transcontinental | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Married. Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, National Field Secretary of the Big Brother & Sister Movement in America; to Miss Betsy Ross, charity worker; at Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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