Word: ball
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...lower end of the St. Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch...
Glenn Warner's Cardinals hit the stride that made them look like champions early in the season. They used a pretty new lateral pass spun out of a cross-buck in which five men handled the ball. Substitute Moffatt and Halfback Frentrup did most of Stanford's scoring. Unexpectedly defensive, California's Lorn kept punting out of danger. He passed to Thornton for one touchdown but needed more than that. Stanford 21, California...
Debutantes from the U. S. who have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds. At all his balls and some-times at the King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs?especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga...
...University soccer team concluded a successful season by defeating the hitherto unconquered Yale team by a 2 to 1 score Saturday morning. The game was carried to two five-minute overtime periods, in the last of which H. H. Broadbent '32, a consistent star of this season, kicked the ball into the Blue...