Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The reference is to the top of the Fifth avenue buses, and the heart of the matter is tobacco. Henceforth it is not to be the open top, nor quite the closed top, but a sort of semi-hemi-preferential top with the two left-hand seats and the three...
Tom Patricola has one of the funniest acts seen in vaudeville for years, his method of telling jokes making any imitation of him almost a sacrilege. He falls down and knocks himself about with such subtlety that any suspicion of slapstick or horseplay is done away with.
Yale kicked off to Harvard. Buell dropped back and kicked a nice goal. Harvard kicked off to Yale. Second down, ten yards to go, a forward pass by Murphy failed. Third down, ten to go, a forward pass by Murphy failed. Fourth down, ten to go, a forward pass by...
The idea to have blocked forward passes, when these occur back of the point where the ball is put in play stand simply as blocked kicks, is a move towards giving a greater reward to the keen defensive play of the line. As the forward passes, blocked behind the line...
As for tunes, the big hit of the evening is "On the Brim of Her Old Fashioned Bonnet"; the audience whistles this catchy and irresistible melody as soon as it hears it. "Hootch" is a humorous song, in which the music, however, is subordinated to the words. The other compositions...