Word: player
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ticknor Harvard has the first. All American candidate since the days of C. J. Hubbard '24 and his unanimous choice as captain of the 1930 eleven speaks volumes for the confidence which his teammates spokesmen for the entire undergraduate body have in his ability as a leader and a player. For two years the rangy Crimson center has proven a tower of offensive and defensive strength. His brilliant play this fall has won him the praises of coaches and experts who have watched him and his name has figured on all the "All" teams chosen so far. Ticknor's forte...
...excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor...
Engaged. John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J., 1929 Davis Cup tennis player; and Marjorie ("Midge") Gladman, seventh-ranking woman player; at Santa Monica...
...observation, and at 6 o'clock, not satisfied with his condition, called an ambulance and took him to the Stillman Infirmary. There the boy's condition improved and Dr. Richards went to the theatre to deliver the theatre tickets for Harding's sister. Dr. Browder, who was with the player, became convinced shortly before 9 o'clock that Harding's condition was critical Richards was summoned and it was discovered that Harding was bleeding inwardly and that he probably had a ruptured spleen...
Picking any sort of "all" team is in a good many ways a foolish way to waste time, because everybody knows that just because so and so says one player is better than another it doesn't make him actually so. But just the same every one is entitled to his own opinion and in most cases it, is just as liable to be right as the next fellow's all of which means that picking mythical football teams at least isn't an injurious way to waste time...