Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth's Big Green cagers, who dominated the play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League during the season just ended and who won the championship for the second year in a row, are much in evidence on the all-league team chosen by the seven coaches as they walked away with three first team berths and placed one man on the second quintet...
Pedestrians on the broad streets of Denver one day last week edged over to the curb and stared with amazement at a large, dark man who was calmly walking backwards, carefully avoiding hydrants and baby carriages. When police seized him by the arm and turned him around, he backed away from them, cocked his head over his shoulder, continued walking in reverse...
...husky-duskies break out into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...
...dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again I. R. T. promptly recompensed him with a $150,000 bonus and doubled his salary...
...Frindsbury, England, 20-year-old Postman Harry Cuckoo was arrested, put on probation for two years for throwing away Christmas cards and letters, instead of delivering them. Harry Cuckoo's defense: "I found it hard to find my way about . . . there was thick snow on the ground...