Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowds attending the West Point, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania football games at the Stadium next fall will find the old familiar wooden stands blocking the open end of the horseshoe. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, received notice yesterday from E. T. Roemer, acting building commissioner of the city of Boston, that permission to rebuild these temporary stands, suspended last year, would be accorded again for this fall...
Last week the Cooperative Union Congress-representing the collective-buyer horde-met 4,000 strong in West Hartlepool. Soon the delegates were furiously debating whether to continue in active alliance with the British Labor Party...
...perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques in The Grand Street Follies of 1928 quite so hilariously exact as they did. The former simultaneously played Mrs. Fiske with the right side of his face and Ethel Barrymore with the left; Dorothy Sands played Mae West in Romeo and Juliet. Other impudent imitations were offered by Paula Trueman who appeared successively as Haidee Wright, Eva LeGallienne, and Helen Hayes...
...Colchester, Conn., one Edward West, 69, six feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face...
...Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...