Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pounds. This might make them subject to more bumps, but ought to allow the backs to get up more speed.... Coach Rockne, of Notre Dame, recently wrote to a Chicago paper and asked that a certain reporter not be assigned to any of his games. It seems that said scribe was too caustic about the Notre Dame team.... BY TIME...
...cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from...
...Glass of Water. About one hundred years ago Parisian society waxed ecstatic over the plays of a romanticist, Augustin Eugene Scribe, whose name is still glamorous to many drama students. Anyone who wishes to learn what ridiculous and hollow charades enthralled Paris of the '305 and '405 may now see the American Laboratory Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired...
...further penetrating observation by Scribe Starr-Hunt...