Word: rollers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed! In describing the first night of John Howard Lawson's "Processional," Mr. Don Passos, who takes the play as his model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
...said the separate states would necessarily fail to regulate the labor fairly owing to the fact that conditions vary in each state. C. M. Gifford, Wesleyan's second speaker, practically won the decision for his team by his smooth delivery and his argument that the amendment "like a steam roller, would crush out all local interests and ideals...
...last act, the hero becomes governor of an island and defies any one to take from him the woman he loves. Nobody tries. The curtain falls. The Steam Roller rolls blunderingly through three acts in the form or an inexpertly written part for Janet Beecher. Miss Beecher plays an imperious and exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster...
...There were disgraced public officials then, repudiated by their party and under arrest; but today Fall goes unmolested on his ranch in New Mexico, Daugherty sat with Presidential approval in the Convention at Cleveland, and Daugherty's attorney was Chairman of the committee created to oil the steam roller of the worst boss-ridden convention of a generation...
...mystery that he has always been, but he was found for seven clean hits by the University batters. His effectiveness was 100 per cent in the pinches, however, as the Harvard ninth inning proves. Todd singled to start that frame. Hammond was safe when Walsh booted his easy roller, and Rogers walked, Carroll calmly surveyed Crimson runners on every base and then struck out the side. A. S. Rogers, batting for Hill, Samborski, and Larrabee, hitting in place of Brown, were the three victims. Carroll also fanned Hammond, A. G. Rogers, and Hill in the seventh...