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France?Cochet, Lacoste, Brugnon, Borotra, Boussus, four of whom are calculated to defend and retain the Davis...
When the Crimson key wearers sally out from Widener to defend the honour of the University and the Alpha of Massachusetts, a once annual custom, severed five years ago over some meet point, will be revived. In 1924 tradition has it, the game was played in the Esculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where it was called on account of darkness after nine scoreless innings. With the development of inside baseball among the Harvard erudites during the past five years, it is thought that the Crimson standard-bearers can fashion out a run before the regulation time...
...disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...
Mustering forces to defend the national honor, the American Legian prepared to call the roll, Boston dowagers girded their armor to fall in line, daring debutantes atremble with excitement equipped themselves with stamps and awaited the word to blot from the invidious Artkino program the names of those who led the rest. Swelling the ranks, officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their...
...husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play...