Word: hopefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plymouth--"Holiday". Thoroughly entertaining comedy with Hope Williams...
Billy Laval, coach of the South Carolina University football team is having his halfbacks literally live with footballs in the hope that the costly fumbles that marred the "Gamecocks" contest with Clemson last week may not occur again. His ball carriers are carrying the ball to class, to meals, and to bed this week, so that they may become thoroughly familiar with its ovoid shape...
...bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last week, by request of a Philadelphian, the Tribune published the same obituary: HOPE-Beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fan of this city departed this life yesterday afternoon at the West Side Ball Park after a lingering illness of nine innings. She was attended by thirty thousand physicians who did all in their power to save her, but with comparatively little success. She rallied a little...
...pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing, utterly irrelevant note. Amazed, the audience applauded this unique effort as if it had been a complete and flawless song. Critics were kind, blamed only young...
...been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy their desires...