Word: winner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel...
...above totals were arrived at by awarding four points to the winner in each sport, three to second place, two for third place, and one for the last team. The complete table of inter-dormitory spring sports results follows: Baseball Crew Tennis Total Smith 2 1/2 4 4 10 1/2 Standish 4 0 2 1/2 6 1/2 McKinlock 2 1/2 3 1 6 1/2 Gore...
...preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...
Harvard's mounts will be shipped to Philadelphia on Thursday and the team will follow on Saturday. The Crimson cohorts first match will be on June 22 with the winner of the West Point-Princeton game. If victorious in this match Coach Sharp's men will battle the winner of the Yale-P. M. C. tilt on June 29 for supreme honors...