Word: backhandedness
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In spite of Harvard pressure, Yale made it 2 to 0, early in the third period, but "Gipper" Gebelein backhanded a rebound into the net at 8:27. Paine and Gordy McGrath received assists on the play. Then at 10:52 the second line tied it up on Marc Beebe...
It had been a long, slow, bitter and devious fight. Yet the outcome, which was a 100% New Deal victory, contained unexpected cheer for Wall Street, too. On the same day that Frank announced he had broken the problem's back, utility holding company preferred stocks began to go...
The President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he...
When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such...
If Wheat and Soldiers was not written to order for the Japanese Ministry of War, there is nothing in its 191-page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been...