Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some 60,000 persons witnessed the affair. That was only nine years ago! The lineups...
...them get away with it," and "I never got such treatment in Gimbels." Of course this didn't last long because Macy employes soon outnumbered the rioters. For my part I couldn't help feeling that there was something just a little staged about the whole affair...
Shortly after this convention a group of veterans of a Regular Army division all of whom saw service at the front as early as Chateau- Thierry, met in the Parker House, Boston, to organize a society. The meeting was a tremendous contrast to the Legion affair. Sixty were present. Many had been wounded in action. None had liquor. The spirit was remarkably matured thought, striking dignity, and intense respectability. Most were not Legionaries. Some were successful businessmen; others more humble; but each maintained the same dignity, the same matured and respectable attitude. It was an inspiration and a contrast...
...Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted to the Theatre Guild. Mr. Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they struggle through a jerky love affair. Occasional advice is given by a worldly doctor, Leo Donelly, who even goes so far as to prescribe Miss Ulric for Mr. Tone as a remedy for his anemia and general rundown condition. Only new angle which Pagan Lady contributes to this genre of the drama is that although the preacher...
...following Freshmen will serve as ushers at the affair: Carter Welles, Harold Burlingham, F. S. Leutner, George Shaw, A. F. Hartwell, P. B. Pratt, B. K. Thorogood, T. D. Spencer, John Little, George Caturani, S. G. Davenport, and Henry Ehrlich...