Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broad and Captain Stifler, the Brown ends, are two of the best wing men in the cast: Stifler proved his worth last season and Board has been playing brilliantly all this fall, especially in the Dartmouth game...
Three o'clock in the afternoon, tea tables gorgeously bedight with flowers and silver-bedight but quite deserted-an orchestra crooning overhead-and a great crowd of women seizing catalogs surged ahead into the east wing of the Art Institute in Chicago to the opening of the 38th annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture. On the walls of the great chain of rooms hung 110 portrait and figure pieces, 91 landscapes, 18 marines, 16 still life paintings, and here and there on pedestals were scattered 58 pieces of sculpture-exhibits chosen from 1,200 items submitted. The women...
Presently the curtain rises again on the small lobby of the Commercial House in Herrington. The girl an ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect...
Germany. Nineteen pictures very varied, from 19th Century art plainly labeled "Made in Germany for Conservatives" to "Afternoon Tea" by Ernst Kirchner, wherein the tea table cants like a broken wing and the arches of the chairs leer with grotesque Gothic humor...
...winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return. -a Bellanca plane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlain, carrying one Lawrence Buranelli, passenger. It had tipped a telephone wire with a right wing, come crashing down into the backyard of a deserted shanty. Passenger Buranelli, crushed under the unrecognizable grim huddle of the motor, was killed. Pilot Chamberlain was injured...