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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though man and wife, Herr Korda and Frau Corda spell their names differently...
Untill the victory of three weeks ago, the Holy Cross baseball team had held a six-year spell over the University diamond outfits, triumphing in every game, and scoring 50 runs against 14 for the Crimson during that period. In the last game. Harvard knocked Davidson and fons, the two leading right-handers of the Worcester nine, off the mound. The Crudaders' two runs were both scored by Harrell, their shortstop, who hit a home run on the first ball pitched in the game, and who drove out a triple in the sixth, on which W. B. Jones '28 made...
...British Who's Who 1927 and Europe 1927 (standard international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive...
Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
...eight innings of Saturday's game the right arm of J. N. Barbee '28 held its spell over the B. U. batsmen. Four hits, three of which, coupled with a pass in the second inning, produced two runs, constituted the damage done to the Crimson hurler's delivery during that period. But with two out in the ninth William Ullman '27, University second-sacker, made a high throw to first, drawing J. E. Tobin off the cushion. Two pinch-hitters were rushed into the breach, and each responded with a clean single. Jenkins, Terrier backstop, faced crowded bags and drove...