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...Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...unusually heavy eleven for a small college team and as is always the case with a Y. M. C. A. team, are in the pink of condition. In its two games so far this year Spring-field has astounded its opponents with the rapidity with which it has gotten in-to action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED ELEVEN MEETS SPRINGFIELD | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

...have a grievous complaint to register against my employer, the Harvard CRIMSON. It concerns my prediction for the second Worlds Series game. After investigation I have discovered that the proofreader has wagered money on the Cardinals and maliciously altered my score, in order to aid him in amassing ill-gotten gains...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: HUEY FAVORS CARDINALS; DECREES FOOTBALL RESULTS | 10/4/1930 | See Source »

...breakfast bacon & eggs, both tales come out about even. A good deal of the action in the Kennard flat upstairs is valid and affecting, in spite of its antiquated situation. And some of the comedy in the flat downstairs is funny, if overlong. At least, audiences felt they had gotten their money's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...Harvard Freshman team cut his unwieldy squad of 200 men down to 70 on Saturday preparatory to beginning the second week of work with the 1934 team today. Coach French has had one of the largest Freshman squads in recent years out during the past week, but has not gotten down to serious work because of the large number of men with which he had to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH SLASHES 1934 FOOTBALL SQUAD TO 70 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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