Word: maker
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Last year baseball and football were the only major sports which made money. Football was the biggest money maker with its receipts showing a gain of over $74,282 over the expenses. Baseball came next, earning about $12,486. Crew showed the greatest loss with $17,559; track involved the next greatest net expense, with $10,709, followed by hockey with...
...plays of Mr. Maughan's that we have seen we have discovered that usually the first act moves rapidly while the succeeding acts are but clever repartee. Therefore when the second act begins with an amusing but not altogether relevant scene in which Lady Frederick bests her dunning dress-maker we expected that from then on we were to be amused rather than thrilled. But we were agreeably disappointed. The action, mingled with dialogue, epigrammatical and quick, was soon caught up again, and the play progressed surely and rapidly to the conclusion of the story...