Word: captain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a time has Captain Katzenjammer* famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan marionetteer, the Captain, Hans und Fritz, Herr Inspektor & Frau Katzenjammer together with gargantuan balloon animals of indeterminate breed and sex, had bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There...
...knowledge that Tulane was the only unbeaten and untied team in the Southern Conference made the Louisiana statesmen overeager. Profiting by penalties, tall Captain Billy Banker and his green wave worked in their usual style. Tulane 21, Louisiana State...
That J. E. Barrett '30 and B. H. Ticker captain and captain-elect of the Crimson football squad, would decline the invitation to play on the all eastern football in its Western conflict on the coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities...
...unofficial report last night from N. F. Ayer '00, president of the Harvard Club, he will be unable to attend. However, W. J. Bingham '16 and head coach Arnold Horween '20, are among those who have definitely accepted, and both of these will speak. It is also probable that Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and Captain-elect B. H. Ticknor '31 will be on the list of speakers...
Among the 23 men retained six are lettermen from last year, Captain E. T. Putnam ocC, S. L. Batchelder '31, John Cross '30, C. B. Lakin '30, J. B. Garrison '31, and G. C. Holbrook '30. Seven men from the Freshman team of last year including the captain, C. C. Cunningham '32, also remain on the University squad. The others are W. H. Crosby '32, F. R. Stubbs '32, C. D. Draper '32, E. E. Wendell '32, E. A. Mays '32, and W. B. Wood...